Quotes About Artistry

In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.

In my opinion, it's all about the song and the performance, not the gender.

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.

In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Since in the end, as an actor, I cannot do much apart from giving my best on camera, I won't let myself be affected by the business of cinema.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.

I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact song, an arrangement, a sound - and I fail. And so you can't even tell I was trying to do that thing. It makes sense in my own head but I'm incapable of copying.

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

I do not have a problem with remixes but original songs are not being included in an album, this is sad.

I'm a real guy. I'm not money-laundering. I make money off music, and music is my source of income. It feels good. I'm not selling T-shirts, I'm not doing none of that other crap. Straight music.

I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

I've always found some way to kind of incorporate second-line music in what I did.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.