Quotes About Artistry

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

I can dance - I can dance a little bit. I can move. I don't - I'm not a - I don't proclaim to be a dancer, but I can move. But instruments, playing the drums, I probably play the drums better than I walk, better than I do anything.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I feel like when I get the demos - I get a lot of demos - but when I get the right demo, I get very inspired. I produce around it, and it often goes very fast.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.