Quotes About Artistry

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

Students of Bharatanatyam or any other dance form, for that matter, are artistes first.

I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

I never studied fashion design.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

I've never studied music.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

I won't miss Monday morning rehearsals in a freezing studio at 8 A.M. I will happily never do that again.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.