Quotes About Artistry

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me want to do this for my life, it's Sam Shepard.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.