Quotes About Artistry

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

I adore The Maccabees and I think they're completely not given the recognition they deserve at all. 'Wall Of Arms' is one of those albums that just gets to you.

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

Seeing all of these beautiful brown faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were living in; I was just so blown away by the artistry that I recognized in 'Moonlight' - the colors, the music.

Make music from your heart, even if it's experimental or not really common, try it out, it can only get you more recognized.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?

I was really proud of the Three Days Grace record 'One-X.'

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone.