Quotes About Artistry

I like remixing Barry White and ABBA songs.

Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I acted in 'Oomakkuyil' under Balu Mahendra's baton.

I want people to go deep into my music like Baton Rouge does.

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

I have to be creative to be happy.

I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat!

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.