Quotes About Art

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.

I've never done a musical before. I've sung, off and on, all of my life. But I have never, ever done a musical.

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

Sunlight is painting.

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

Performing outside, you have to wear sunscreen.

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.