Quotes About Artistry

They were the younger guys playing at the end of the Swing Era, just playing their version of it. It became known as bebop, which sounds esoteric, but it was really just an offshoot of swing music." That offshoot, however, almost instantly changed jazz music's identity, advancing it from a danceable idiom played with the audience's casual listening pleasure in mind to a more personal and cerebral modern music.

I'm sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You've just got to do it all.

The rest of us do "high school theater." Lou does "theater.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

20. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.

There is nothing to show, yet, some say the show must go on. Flowers blossom at dawn in the dark, a sperm germinates without a spark and photographs too are developed in the dark. You simply be, create and be, doesn't matter whether or not the world can see. Let your work speak and actualize, MickeyMize. Share this for a creative and an expressive world.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.

Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

creative persons definitely know both extremes and experience both with equal intensity and without inner conflict.

Shaping one's own reality, living in a world one has created, can be as enjoyable as writing a symphony. No