Quotes About Artistry

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

God's response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

The master painter makes art with any brush.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Once she'd thought him the most handsome man in the world, and the knowledge that most women wouldn't look at him twice only made him more special, as if he was a brilliant artist whose work only she appreciated.

Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

Tasha Alexander

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.

You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won't notice the theft.

Growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't have to record a song multiple times to make it better.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

I could attempt a project in English, but I'd like to continue singing in Spanish.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.