Quotes About Artistry

I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.

I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

I feel good in makeup, and it helps create a character.

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.

Musicians - we're not doctors. We're not saving people's lives. We're not going out and changing the world. We're not coming up with cancer cures. We're not any of that. They're the real heroes of the world.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.

Like, it's fun for me to sing 'I Think We're Alone Now.' But when 'Could've Been' comes out as a single, that's a ballad and really shows my voice; then people will say, 'Hey, this girl really can sing.'

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I learned a lot from hanging out with Emmylou Harris. One of the biggest pointers she gave me was that if you don't know the words, drop the consonants: that way, you'll hide the sound.

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.

I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.