Quotes About Artistry

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I am no artist - please come and help me.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.