Quotes About Art

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

Yeah, I've always liked Barbara Crane's stuff.

I like a little Barbra Streisand!

I just saw the movie 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' and fell in love with that city.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

Music is a language that should have no barriers.

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

We had a very small practice studio in the basement.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with the art.

You have to be careful of the pictures you make. You should ask, Will it have universal appeal, will it have an appeal at home?

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.