Quotes About Artistry

It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

I know every Bowie song backward.

Bowie's my hero.

The box office isn't something I consider. If I do, I can't really work.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.

Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

I feel like my breakout moment had to have been when I dropped 'Drip Season 3.' I feel like it was just a real good body of music.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

We as actors ought to breathe life into a character and do it seamlessly to connect with the audiences.