Quotes About Artistry

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.