Quotes About Artistry

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

I really love live performing!

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

I love everything John Carpenters ever done.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.