Quotes About Artistry

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Qualsiasi felicità è un capolavoro: il minimo errore la falsa, la minima esitazione la incrina, la minima grossolanità la deturpa, la minima insulsaggine la degrada.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

I always tell my students that you can do anything you can get away with, that implausibility is a problem of style. If people bring issues of plausibility to bear on what you're doing, you're not doing it well enough.

If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Do you know, by the way, that in show business the magician is considered to be completely without artistic talent?

La verdad, había en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas.