Quotes About Artistic

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time.

The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.

My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on the street who sent his daughter, Umba, over to begin teaching me when I was only three years of age.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

Mark Ronson was a dear friend through family and through growing up in New York, being in that scene, and Mark came to a show and really liked it and asked us to join his record label Allido records, or 'all I do' records, and that was sort of a development deal.

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.