Quotes About Artistry

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

Only write if you can't not.

Barry Cooper. Beethoven. Oxford University Press: USA, 2008

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy— and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

i want to be a singer

For art to appear, we have to disappear

Philosophers think, creators make!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Writing is a form of mischief.

And when the woman that you wanted goes, You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give." But the woman who won't wait for you knows That, however you live, There's a part of you always standing by, Mapping out the sky, Finishing a hat . . .

Look, I made a hat... Where there never was a hat

1. Sustantivos (Preguntas: ¿Qué específicamente? O ¿Quién específicamente?) 2. Verbos (Pregunta: ¿Cómo específicamente?) 3. Reglas (Pregunta: ¿Qué sucedería si…?) 4. Generalizaciones (Preguntas: ¿Todo…? ¿Siempre…? ¿Nunca…?) 5. Comparaciones (Preguntas: ¿Mejor que qué?, ¿Comparado con qué?)

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.