Quotes About Artistry

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I write music with an exclamation point!

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.