Quotes About Artistry

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.