Quotes About Art

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.

Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

If you want a show to talk about politics or the Muslim ban or whatever - someone should make that show. That's not what I'm interested in.

In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because I only grunted.

I got caught doing graffiti with my friend in broad daylight once.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

In my generation, we sort of let the art speak for itself. We don't disclose our personal private lives.

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

I started my journey with 'Dooba Dooba.'

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

Love-making is so personal to me that if I do it on screen, it is like I am leaving a part of my soul. I cannot do that.