Quotes About Artistry

I really like Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.

Soft romantic numbers are my comfort zone but I would surely like to step out of it and try something peppy like a dance number.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly scripted scenario was a sight to behold.

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

I wake up, and I'm in the zone... My performance is the continuation of my life.

I can never think about, 'Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?' I just have to get in the zone where I'm like, 'Do I love this, or do I not love this?' Essentially it all comes down to that.

I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production.

I would say there is a zone of R&B that hadn't been quite innovative.

Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.

I'm not doing anything intentionally to stay in the public eye. I'm staying true to my art, like I always have. The press, for whatever reason, decided to zone in on what is very common banter for me. It got worked out through song - the same way I work everything out.

The more time I spend working on 'Sekiro,' the deeper I sink into this zone of blood and gore and conflict. But if I want to get out of it, I can walk over to the other side of the studio and ease myself into a completely different feeling when I work on 'Deracine.'

You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.