Quotes About Artistry

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.

The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted to record a track.

I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

I always wanted to be an acclaimed artist and to be at the top of my game.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.