Quotes About Artistry

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

I don't know if I would be doing what I do without 'Eve's Bayou,' and I don't know if I would have the career that I have without working on 'Eve's Bayou.' The love for what I do, I found it in that project.

Killing Eve' was kind of the road for me as an art person, where you have this opportunity to work with so many different writers, so many different directors, and so many actors at the same time.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Any time I get a chance to work with artists that make me inspired and learn new stuff about music - every chance I get, I'll take.

I write every night.

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.

I go to the studio every night.

It's very difficult to choose my favorite song because every night I do a show I find that sometimes one song will ascend higher than the others.

If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we'd probably make some schmaltzy record.

I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

I've been playing music since I was four, so it's part of my life. It's all I know. It's just a part of my everyday living.

Those who create everyday with the goal of the completion of their souls are true artists of life.

Qué quiere decir? —se extrañó Dalmau. —Pues que mientras unos respetan nuestro trabajo y nos encargan piezas y diseños, y confiemos que sigan haciéndolo, Gaudí se dedica a recoger los desechos de fábricas y talleres para recubrir las obras con eso que él llama trencadís, un mosaico mal ensamblado de piezas rotas y restos desechados de cerámica, vidrio y porcelana.

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.

First, master your instrument. Then forget all that bullshit and play!

the letter the young composer

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

Mine your words as if digging for diamonds and gold.