Quotes About Artistry

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.