Quotes About Artistry

I think most people don't understand: I have nothing to do with that. I just open my mouth, and it comes out that way.

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot.

I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I've tried to copy some of his movements.

You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's all music is.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?

I'm a singer who moves well.