Quotes About Artistry

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.