Quotes About Artistic

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.