Quotes About Artistry

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

You have to just do music, and you're becoming this entertainer, and so many people require so much of your time for different things, different obligations you have to make money, or just different obligations you have as a person in whatever the situation may be.

In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

I think Labrinth is an amazing writer and an amazing singer. His voice is just so magnetic. There are so many people that I would work with inside and outside of pop.

I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don't want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.

My gears that I have to go through... One minute in my mind to be Beyonce and one minute to be Rihanna and one second to do a hook for Kanye and then have to write records for myself. I'm so many people, I'm never just one person. So I don't have to reinvent because artists around me reinvent for me.

That's really what gymnastics should be. It should always be a beautiful and inspiring thing to so many people.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

A show is like it's own thing... it's a creation from so many people's talent and so much energy.

It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is.

It's so much fun to be able to collaborate creatively with someone you grew up watching.

We spent so much time on 'Every Kingdom,' it was a real heart record.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

The arts are not frosting but baking soda.

Instead he created an enormous body of prose that, at its best, sings.

Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.

Todo arte nuevo, para ser auténtico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artística.

No one plays the silent flute better than she does!

Anything really is possible in musical theater.