Quotes About Artistry

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.

The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

I do tend to drape my real feelings with pretty words and different layers and stuff.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.

As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.

I work hard to make a gift to the audience.