Quotes About Artistic

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I wanted to go beyond what K-pop is typically perceived as, and through 'Move' I was able to show a concept that's more edgy, more powerful.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.

Prakash Jha is an intense filmmaker, he is a perfectionist. He would never have a song just for the sake of it.

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

We entered 'Lucid Grey' into the Georgetown festival on April 27, 2001. Now 'Sound of My Voice' is opening on April 27, 11 years later. It couldn't have happened in a more perfectly cinematic way.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I was a dancer and performer.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.