Quotes About Artistry

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.

When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.

I learned all I have to do is sing the best music I know how and put on the best show I know how and just relax with it and people enjoy it.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

You can only release music so often. You have albums and the whole cycles and everything like that, so covers are a great way to release music and new things before the next album comes out.

I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

'Let There Be Love' is going to be my very first international single release after going independent and I'm beyond excited.

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.

Being a perfectionist is really difficult. You're never really happy with what you're doing, no matter how good it is. When you can just release that pressure and be in someone else's work and still have the respect of those creators to bounce off the page and give your ideas that they can take or leave? I really enjoy that.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.