Quotes About Artistry

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

All music comes from God.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

TVXQ has always chased after different music styles, and their members all have very strong talents.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.