Quotes About Artistry

And when they were playing it through a second time, Mackey opened his mouth and blew everybody's minds.

God, it's gorgeous when you do that," he said, his voice choked. "Do what?" Mackey asked, not able to stop staring at him. "Pull music out of the air," Grant

But he carried that thing, that pixilated fuck-off-and-love-me thing into the music.

Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Je mets pas mal de choses d'abord sur mon papier ; ensuite j'ajoute la simplicité.

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Così ha cominciato a cercare frasi nei libri che ama, e a trascriverle con la penna stilografica su pezzi di quattro centimetri per due di carta paglierina che poi arrotola stretti e lega con un nastrino rosso.

No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

Forgoing outright atrocity, of which there is so much—too much—right now, aren't the 'life,''body,' and 'face' of Michael Jackson in the running for some of the most abstract events of the last century?

My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

I usually spend my weekends working on my music and videos.

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.

MAC is truly at the forefront of trendsetting, which reminds me every time I see a MAC campaign or the incredible looks their artists create backstage at fashion weeks around the world. It's an honor to partner with a brand with such an incredible heritage and unrivaled expertise in makeup artistry.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.