Quotes About Artistry

The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

All I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose-leaf.

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

A few people, however, can still see and hear in the old way. But most of the members of the human race have lost the capacity to he painters, poets or musicians, and are not left the option of seeing and hearing directly even if they can afford to; they must get it secondhand. The recovery of this ability is called here "awareness.

I am and always will be a blues guitarist

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Let It Grow," and it was several years before I realized that I had totally ripped off "Stairway to Heaven," the famous Zeppelin anthem, a cruel justice seeing as how I'd always been such a severe critic of theirs.

Delaney turned me on to so many things. He played me the music of J. J. Cale, which was to become an enormous influence.

You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Writers are not the sanest lunatics in the asylum...

I cannot bring myself to write for the flute, as this instrument is too limited and imperfect.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

I'd say, 'Trane, man, why are you doing that, beating on your chest and howling in the microphone?'" Ali remembered in an interview. "He'd say, 'Man, I can't find nothing else to play on the horn.' He exhausted the saxophone. He couldn't find nothing else to play … he ran out of horn.

The light in which the city is cast by writers, poets and artists helps determine the kind of cities we get.

In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb. His eyesight had never recovered from his torment on the ceiling of the Sistine, and by this point in his life he was almost blind. He was sculpting more by feel than by sight—and yet he persevered, even trying new carving techniques right up until six days before his death.

This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in the pope's chapel. If it had been discovered that Buonarroti had denied the Church and veered into Valdesian Protestantism, he would not only have lost his career, but also his freedom—and possibly his life.