Quotes About Artistry

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

I'm constantly evolving as a musician.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

I'm all about inspiring young musicians to get out there and express themselves through music.

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.