Quotes About Artistry

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Make it lovely.

Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being inside the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was the bring it out. Violet mother

So I make up song after song. Most nights, these are Songs That Will Change the World because they are that good and that deep and that damn amazing.

What image of beauty we hold exists so brilliantly, so beautifully in our minds, and the sad task then is to somehow transcribe this image so that it becomes viewable to others.

To picture him, sitting at his desk at home, scribbling away with a pen and paper, endears him to me so completely. It gives me shivers. Currents of electricity from my scalp down to my toes.

The wife has begun planning a secret life. In it, she is an art monster. She puts on yoga pants and says she is going to yoga, then pulls off onto a country lane and writes in tiny cramped writing on a grocery list She thinks she should go off her meds maybe so as to write more fluidly. Possibly this is not a good idea. But only possibly.

Bartholine was not of their kind. She had no interest in the affairs of the fields and the stables, no taste for the dairy and the kitchen — none whatever. She loved poetry. She lived on poems, dreamed poems, and put her faith in them above everything else in the world.

The artist, that is to say, begins by looking to the world around him, and then, on the basis of his powers of observation, offers some perceptual account of it for our appreciation.

If it looks like computer graphics, it is not good computer graphics.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.