Quotes About Artistry

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

I'm asking questions that most people are asking, but just putting a melody or a song to it.

'Maruvarthai' was an exciting song for me because it showcased my Carnatic roots.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

When I sing, I try to make the song my own and sing it my way because, in my mind, I am not following any school of thought. I just make myself free.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then transmits happiness to many, translates into money, fame, or whatever.

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

With independent music sometimes you are able to bring yourself out and your persona out, 'Tanhaai' was that song for me.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.