Quotes About Artistry

It doesn't matter where I stand; whether at the front or at the back, in the middle or at the side. As long as I can get on stage and do what I love, that's enough for me.

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

proved that technical problems can have artistic solutions

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

WOW!" A GALVANIZED Igor Stravinsky reportedly exclaimed after listening to Leonard Bernstein's astonishing recording of The Rite of Spring—a still-unsurpassed performance that Columbia Records captured more than fifty years ago in a single inspired and electrically charged recording session on January 20, 1958, in New York City.

Look at the score and make it come alive as if [you] were the composer. If you can do that, you're a conductor and if you can't, you're not. If I don't become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I'm conducting their works, then it won't be a great performance.

The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the soul, the world, the birds, storms, dreams, sadness, heavenly serenity. Then I am an artist worthy of the name . . . . Until it happens, or if it doesn't happen, I am miserable.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.')

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I'm singing for the love of it, have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

I never practice. I always play.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived