Quotes About Artistry

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

I live in an atmosphere of music.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.