Quotes About Artistry

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.