Quotes About Artistry

Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.

If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.

I'm not particularly prolific.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.

I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

Direction is closest to my heart. I may run out of work as an actor as I get older, but I can work as a director even if I live up to be 90. I promised myself that I will direct a film every three years.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.