Quotes About Artistry

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

Sometimes the last thing you want to do is to go on stage and bare your soul in front of hundreds of complete strangers. Singing the same songs night after night can remind you of things you'd rather forget.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

I'd rather have quality over quantity. It's about perfecting each song and making sure it's what you want to do. And then even with what I share it's all very strategic.

Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.

the self-understandings of cultural producers."2 They do so by drawing heavily on interviews and email conversations with some 130 participants (interviews are conducted by myself unless otherwise referenced) as well as the vibrant, sometimes urgent accounts of contemporaneous writers,

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

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Draft ugly and edit pretty.

May all of your creations have just the right flavor,

The Beginning Is "heart work," not "head work" "So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity.

As modern readers of masterpieces like The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone know, some degree of "unfinishedness" was to be expected, and perhaps desired, even in novels of undeniable craft and artistry by tremendously sophisticated authors. Vernacular novels were intentionally circulated not as finished products, but with room for readers, as well as editors and commentators, to contribute their own thoughts.

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

We are happiest when we are being creative because we lose our sense of self and get the feeling that we are part of something greater. We

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It would not occur to me to write a joke like, 'This would be great if I was more like Andrew Dice Clay.' It's not the voice I write in - which is largely an extension of the voice in my head that I think in.

It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

I'd like to do something with Frank Ocean, you know, and I love working with Thundercat, and I'd love to do more with him.

I got a record with Frank Ocean.

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.