Quotes About Artistry

I like to make music from a personal standpoint, and the music that feels good to me, and when the music becomes big, it's even better because it's an even more organic feeling than when you, like, tried to make the hit record.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

It's important to me that my music stands out. 'Taki Taki' doesn't sound like anything else out there, and it's hard to do that when you are on the road all the time, but it's really important to me that how people feel about my work. It was the same with 'Magenta Riddim.'

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.