Quotes About Artistry

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!