Quotes About Artistic

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

I am lucky to have found an artistic companion in Anurag; there is a sense of belonging.

I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

I'm a composer, man.

I consider myself a composer.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I wanted to be a composer.

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.

It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

I'm just a little artsy-fartsy computer dude.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

I'm a very conceptual writer.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.