Quotes About Artistic

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.