Quotes About Artistry

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

My EDM outings 'Sooraj Dooba Hain,' 'Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main,' 'Chal Wahan Jaate Hain' are melodically very different songs. I have mixed up the genres.

Every record I've made, I've mixed and engineered at home.

I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.