Quotes About Artistry

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Sacrifice once and for all the trivialities of social life to your art.

To make a mistake is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

The sentence is the great invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah!" He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs Avery?" asked Julian. "No, of course not, she said. "It's a hideous profession. Entered into by narcissists who think their pathetic little imaginations will be of interest to people they've never met.

Durante veintiún días, escribió casi sin parar. Luego pasó otros dos días trabajando en la orquestación. En veinticuatro días, completó el manuscrito de doscientos sesenta páginas. Llamó a esa obra El Mesías.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

When you're being creative there is no such thing as a mistake.

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That Is what I would like to do. I think that Is one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music