Quotes About Artistry

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then television.

I love musical theater because it's live. There is no Auto-Tune. There's no second chance. What you see is what you get. You have to be amazing every night.

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

I take musical theater seriously.

In musical theatre you're also supposed to be able to dance and everything, so I've always tried to take dance lessons, but I've realized that martial arts comes to me so much more easily than dancing ever has.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.