Quotes About Artistry

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

You can't be 'on' everyday, no one is a hit machine all the time. But if you're loving the music it will happen. It shouldn't be laborious.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps. At the very least, torture and mayhem.

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me. Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues, telling stories while the smooth buttery rhythms back me up on the left.

O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion.

Another flawless lie. I may not do it often but I shine at it like I do most things.

Whether metaphors are strung together like separate beads on a string, or kneaded together into a compound, it's important that we can use more than one of them.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance you know, football stars and theatre stars It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

When a basket is woven, each strand of grass, or reed, or wool, or root, must pass repeatedly through human hands, and this, the principle of human touch, is what remains long after the artifact has lost utility or form, something, I think, about life being lived in its physical moment, something, it must be, about grace.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.