Quotes About Artistic

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.