Quotes About Artistry

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

Sometimes, I know it's not me that makes this music. Like, when the Based God comes, he speaks to me. It's not me, even though I'm there playing the music live, myself.

I like to be so good, that no-one can have anything to say about me; my dancing speaks for itself.

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

I feel like my work speaks for itself.

Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

I listen to a lot of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears - the songs just stick in your head and that's what I want to achieve with my music.

I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

In this era of digital special effects, I think it's good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water and clay, to dry it in the air from the sun. This brings you back to the element of life.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

France has always had a special place for Apple. This is the best place to discover and chat with all musicians, graphic designers, designers, or photographers who use our products. There is such creative energy.

Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If it bores me, it certainly won't please an audience.

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.