Quotes About Artistry

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

All art is theft.

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.

It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises what you're doing.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.

Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.

My favorite. "Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull." ? Rod Serling

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.