Quotes About Artistry

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.