Quotes About Artistry

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment.

I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.

His fingers just flew over the notebook paper of their own accord. The words, just right, continued to flow from Emory, using only instinct and no thought.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

them, the Beatles, and they would remain my true love, musically at least, for the rest of my life.

My pen is the key to a fantastic bordello, and once the gate is opened, it ejaculates a bloody ink. The virgin paper set to shriek evokes worlds heretofore unknown: eruptive, incorruptible, suffocating.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Everything is made, but only people make things. I mean, how can a thing exist if it isn't made ? How can a shape be a shape if it isn't shaped ?

Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby

Silly Love Songs" wanders on for a bizarre and very unpop six minutes. Paul was passionate about music-making, which is different from being passionate about music.

I'd have too much John ("Oh Yoko!," "I'm Steppin' Out," "Oh My Love," "New York City," "Nobody Told Me") and too much Paul ("Jet," "Friends to Go," "Flaming Pie," "Too Many People," "We Got Married," "Simple as That," "Hi, Hi, Hi," "You Gave Me the Answer").

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.

What is imagination? I don't believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.

Any photographer can tell you that lighting makes the difference in a photo. It takes an artist to make the light work with a photo.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.