That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.
— J. J. Cale
I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
— J. August Richards
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
— Ivan Turgenev
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
— Ismail Kadare
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
I am very lucky that Julen Lopetegui gives me total freedom to move where I like.
— Isco
I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.
— Isabella Rossellini
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
— Isabel Allende
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.
— Indya Moore
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
— Indira Gandhi
We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.
— Iliza Shlesinger
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
— Ice Cube
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
— Ibrahim Babangida
I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.
— Ian Rankin
I sang 'Nessun Dorma' twice with Pavarotti, and he told me he'd heard 'Smoke' about five or six times, and every time was different. He was so jealous because if he deviated one jot from the traditional interpretation of the famous arias, he'd be crucified. We have the freedom.
— Ian Gillan
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.
I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
— J. A. Konrath
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
— Issey Miyake
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
— Ismail Haniyeh
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
— Isaiah Berlin
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
— Ingrid Betancourt
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
— Indra Devi
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
— Imre Kertesz
My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.
— Ilaiyaraaja
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
— Ian Smith
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
— Ian Mckellen
I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
— Ian Frazier
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
— Hun Sen
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
— J. G. Ballard
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
— Ivor Novello
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
— Islom Karimov
I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.
— Isabelle Adjani
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
— Irvine Welsh
When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Freedom is living without chains.
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
— Imelda Marcos
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
— Ian MacKaye
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
— Ian Doescher