Quotes About Artistry

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.