Quotes About Art

I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.

I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

I grew up with so many different sounds, and 'Lost' allows me to express all of it, the melodic and the atonal.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

I try to find very simplistic melodies, which are the hardest ones to create.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

I really believe in melody.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.