Quotes About Artistic

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want people to think. I want to make people listen to my lyrics.

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

I was born out of classical music.