Quotes About Artistry

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's.

I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

I consider myself a musician.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.