Quotes About Artistry

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

I don't have a manager who's secretly on Interscope. I'm the complete opposite of an industry plant.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

My plan is to give myself the space and a platform to freely express my creativity.

My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I just play drums, mate.

I love to play gigs.

I play football like I dance.

I don't play golf for money. I play golf to execute that shot, the beautiful shot that everybody adores. That's why I think we all play golf.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.