Quotes About Artistry

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

We treated 'Psychosis' like a labor of love from the beginning, from the selection of riffs - I spent like a month just doing riffs for the record.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.