Quotes About Artistry

If you're making music for the U.S. Latin fan, it's important that you sing in Spanish. Even going too bilingual can backfire.

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.

Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

I like to be able to work quickly, to capture the spark of an idea before it goes out.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.

I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.

I feel there are Sparks songs that are somehow both commenting on a song while at the same time being the song. In a sense, this is breaking down the fourth wall of hiding behind the traditional song form and speaking past the song to the listener.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.

I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.

I would rather like my work to speak for itself.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.

I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.