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Artistry Quotes

"Make good art"

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"Avoid banality; mastery is about complexity up to the edge of discomfort"

"I want to see thirst inside the syllables"

"I am often asked why I write I write because I like to make things and because I like to know what I think and because I hope to please somebody"

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm"

"You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition."

"I don't do music for the recognition. I do it because I love it."

"I don't want to be a singer who just sings love songs"

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them."

"This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us"

"The more perfect the work of art, the more it depends on chance in its existence "

"With my music, I'm trying to turn things inside out and find new patterns and ways of revealing them so that people who listen to the music can feel the same way I do."

"You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason"

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