Quotes About Artistry

Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can't ever lose your talent, he used to tell me. Once you're born with talent, you have it all your life long. You can lose money, youth and looks, but——You want to see the pictures?" In

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I watched her perform on the Grammys and she totally sucked. The song 'All I Want to Do is Have Some Fun' sucks and when she walked out of that place with all those Grammies I knew I was going to give mine away. I did. If they're giving them away for crap, I don't want one in my place. What an insult to real music and musicians everywhere.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great music. I think there's bands like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, the Evens and many others that are doing great stuff. The music that doesn't please you, you just don't listen. No one makes me listen to Nickelback, so long may they wave.

Zappa warned you of the threat of mediocrity in music.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains, as no artist could ever do!

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.

I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.

The theme is everything. Once one has a theme, it is easy to embroider on it.

a French dexterity combined with Italian acting.

My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." —

I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.

If I knew where the good songs were, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.