Quotes About Artistry

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

I love the music business very much.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.