Quotes About Artistry

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.