Quotes About Artistry

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is me and I am SHINee.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

I love playing music no matter where it is.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

See the music, hear the dance.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.