Quotes About Artistry

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think it's about following your instincts and doing a film for the right reason.

I'm not interested in creating a self-aggrandizing home base for myself, for my artistic foibles and interests.

When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.