Quotes About Artistry

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

GoldLink is about my music and not so much about me. But it's cool that people are starting to notice who I am outside that.

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this is what the audience would want from an actor. But as an artist, I don't want to be in that space.

Being involved with BABYMETAL has allowed me to acquire more chances to really become involved with music. As a result, I find myself noticing each individual instrument the band plays and I feel that I have found a new way of enjoying music on a deeper level.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.