Quotes About Artistry

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Only one music comes out of me.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.