Quotes About Artistry

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.