Quotes About Artistry

Our entire goal is to make something that moves you... if you don't want to call it country, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me.

When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You're never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can't just perform the moves.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

And I don't want people to think that I make movies based on other films.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

Mozart is my first strength.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'