Quotes About Artistry

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

I've continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I'm glad I'm a musician. It's the perfect career for me.

I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

I listen to so much music every day, so that's such a big part of my life. To be able to pursue that and put out my own stuff is definitely a goal. I don't want to put something out that I'm not proud of because I think it's so easy to say, 'I'm an actress/musician.'

The only kind of people who pursue stop-motion as a career are people who are absolutely in love with the medium.

It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that exhibition at the Met in 1983. Because I'm sure that Saint Laurent started looking back at his own work. You see that with artists, don't you? Once they get their first retrospective, it's really hard for them to push ahead.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.