Quotes About Artistry

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.