Quotes About Artistry

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme'. John Lennon1

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

At the moment, sitting on the edge of the bed with his eleven pages in his hands, he recognized a great similarity between stealing and writing. Both were intensely private matters.

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

You need to be willing to live on the street to be an artist. Getting sucked into a career is an invitation to bail. It makes it too easy to give up. It makes it almost inevitable that you will.

In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found....

Il talento non esiste, capitano. Esistono soltanto l'ispirazione e l'ambizione.

One of the beautiful things about words is that you can put words together which in isolation mean nothing, or mean only what the dictionary says they mean, and you put them together and you get extraordinary effects.

When you improvise, do you think of the chord changes or the melody? Both. This is an interesting question which Im unable to answer adequately. If the melody is the skeleton of the particular object, then the chord changes are its wardrobe, its changes of clothes. I tend to pay rather more attention to the latter than to the former. All I want is just a trace of skeletonthree bones from which the rest may be reasoned out.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.