Quotes About Artistry

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

There is no art without intention.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.