Quotes About Artistry

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say, and I'm not scared to say anything.

I'm ready to create.

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.'

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.