Quotes About Artistry

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.