Quotes About Artistry

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I have this mistress: show business.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting, ' and do a second take.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by the dailiness of ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.

Dolores seems to dwell only just inside language, she makes sentences the way a potter works clay, squashing them any which way into shapes that please her.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I mould him as the Baker moulds the Dough before he pops it in the Oven.

Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can never be a sculpture. It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts - or predetermined form - it cannot fly.

The boy Weneluke wove hand patterns with a string, working skillfully into abstract designs on all eight fingers: one of these represented a man and woman facing each other, and, by manipulating each sex, he arrived at a nice parody of copulation.

For Elvis, individual style came unconsciously, from within, demanding expression years before he could have been categorized as an artist. His unique appearance was uncontrived, something that emerged from him, rather than something put onto him.

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo Buonarroti stand together at the peak of Western culture.

No toques el saxofón, déjate tocar por él. CHARLIE PARKER