Quotes About Artistry

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.

I have never stopped playing music.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.

The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.

No one needs to recut 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

There's no stopping and no limits on what musicians and artists can produce.

I can't ever see myself stopping DJing or producing.