Quotes About Artistry

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

I think we've seen every type of drag come across the stage of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' and there is no end in sight of what can be on the stage.

I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.

It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I think I'll be doing music until I die, regardless of whether I'm popular or not. If I ever feel like people aren't receiving my music well anymore, I'll probably go to the backroads and become an executive or just sign artists.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

Every film I do, I want to leave a signature.

Something we're really known for is our signature harmonies, our great melodies - stuff that just makes you feel something and moves you.

We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound.

There are many legendary DPs that I admire, some of whom have a very strong signature, but I'm not sure I want to be the DP where you see my work and say 'Oh, Reed shot that.'

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.

When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole songs. Nowadays, I just go off the feeling.