Quotes About Artistry

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

I don't let the fans rule my world and rule what I do, or how I do it, because as artists we give what we give and you receive how you want to receive.

I don't take films to prove my talent and receive critical acclaim or awards.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Playing receiver is an art form.

I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

'Blackbird' is a really beautiful song, and I actually recently started trying to learn it, and it's beautiful.

I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.

To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it from there. I listen to a lot of jazz, so the chords are really important to me.

You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Comedy is important, and I do not want to end up being recognised for just one genre.

It would be lovely to sit under the radar and make good movies and have just enough recognition so that you could book jobs, but not so that it affects your life.

When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.