Quotes about Artistry

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That's our job!" Toni Morrison

Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.

Every time we demean ourselves we are talking badly about the Artist and the Model.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.