Quotes About Artistry

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

Never play anything the same way twice.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.