Quotes About Artistry

Filming is repetition and many takes.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

Who will you replace Dibakar Banerjee with? There isn't another one.

It doesn't really matter what someone's hair looks like or if the sound is perfect. Every director who's made a couple of movies knows that, because you can replace the sound. Or, like, any one shot is not that important, because they all add up together.

Kudos to Lindsey, for sure, for us not doing a replica of 'Rumours.'

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and then try to replicate that through programming. It's not that it's better or worse, it's just a different style.

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake.

People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like playing music; I want to play with a band.

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

Just because I take my music international doesn't mean I have to sing in English. I will continue to sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Tamil. I want to represent my own country through its own languages.

I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.

If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have in your heart, and it's the same for me. I represent who I am and what I've been through and what I'm bringing to the music.

Strapping Young Lad is a representation of me, just as much as 'Ki,' 'Ghost,' 'Ziltoid' or 'Infinity.' There's no difference; it was just a different period of time.

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.