Quotes About Artistry

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.

On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself, how I truly feel.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.

My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Lady Gaga is a professional, truly, and someone who I aspire to be like as an entertainer.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.