Quotes About Artistry

If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

I'm not a fan of computerised drums, likewise an organ can lose its appeal within minutes, but there are exceptions.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

There are seven notes - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni no one is original in the world. We have to play around the notes and make our own stuff.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Original music is always appreciated.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.