Quotes About Artistry

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

There are some guys out there who make great music who may or may not be super-emotionally attached to their work. To each their own.

Great music is the only genre that actually matters, and the members of that club are far more similar to each other than they are to any genre they might be commonly associated with.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

I think it's a great thing to support fashion and support designers.

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

I'm happy to have been around greatness like Kendrick Lamar.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Al Green is something else.

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.