Quotes About Art

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

What made Andy famous was the years I managed him. I created the Velvet Underground and told him not to worry about them because they would help his career. All those things I did created his fame.

The reason I went ahead with making the music for 'Bombay Velvet' was because I loved the script.

When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.

Music was my one way to vent.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Ventriloquism today is in a slump.

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it's so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.