Quotes About Artistry

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines

Copyright (C) 2012 by Rachel Swirsky

Copyright (C) 2012 by Michael Swanwick

Copyright © 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Too many people think speed is the hallmark of a good musician.

I couldn't stand being near music and not be a part of it. It was like watching the woman you love bedding down with another man. No. Not really. It was like. . .

My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.

I was onstage. And there is nowhere in the world I am more comfortable than on a stage.

When I arrived, Kilvin was in the process of bending a twisted length of iron rod into what I could only assume was a more desirable shape.

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.

at the end of the day, I am a trouper first and all else second. As such, I couldn't ignore the chance for a little showmanship.

You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers.

If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows. I

That's how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It's incredible. There's more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.

This is why there are so few true musicians. A lot of folks can sing or saw out a tune on a fiddle. A music box can play a song flawlessly, again and again. But knowing the notes isn't enough. You have to know how to play them. Speed comes with time and practice, but timing you are born with. You have it or you don't.

Pedirle a un músico que deje de coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que deje de besar a su esposa.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed. After

Mirad he hecho una gran obra y me complace mucho, pero, como todo lo terminado, ya empieza a aburrirme. Quiero retirarme y, como culminación de ese fructífero día, permitirme un pequeño entretenimiento en las cámaras de mi corazón.

la actividad creadora se desarrollaba únicamente en su interior y no podía ser percibida por nadie más que por él mismo.