Quotes About Artistry

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

With Escape the Fate, I was pushing for synths and keyboards and stuff, and everybody was in disagreement with that. They didn't want to do that.

I work a couple of hours a day with a guitar or pushing words around, so over time I have a lot of material, so I don't get into this feast-or-famine situation.

People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.

I want to put a face to my music, I don't want to be a faceless producer or faceless artist.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.

In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the 'Lisa Stansfield sound' and I would hope that when anyone puts on one of my songs they don't even have to listen to my voice to know this is a Lisa Stansfield song, because of the way it sounds.

I need to do something with Cordae. His mannerism is so cool but his bars... he got them bars that puts him in an elite thing.

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

I love putting on shows. I absolutely adore it - that's why I've been doing it now for so long.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.