Quotes About Artistry

In my case, it's hard to be like a simple drummer who doesn't play all over the place.

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.

I know how I feel about my music and how passionate I am. I'm not a fly-by-night dude.

I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.

Me personally, I think that when I take my time with something, it comes out a lot better, because I can really, really get my point across, and if I see that like, this might be a little too deep, I figure out a way to dumb it down so that everybody can understand where I'm going.

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

Dylan can do no wrong.

If I can, I will make an album each year, but time shall tell if this works out. I have other things to do in my life as well.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

The only thing you create music with is your own creativity and your own ears. And it takes a lot of time to develop your own ears. It's really important, before you go to the studio, to realize yourself: What do I want to hear? What do I want to create?

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.