"The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, r...
"I’ve always been into guitars… we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don’t look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has neve...
"Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it." - S...
"The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that’s changing. It happened to the music industry and now it’s happening to the film stud...
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." - Albert Ei...
"The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing c...
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill." - Somerset Maugham...
"Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within...
"Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the...
It is not surprising that young white males – most between thirty and forty – play major roles in the production of hip-pop. It’s easy to forget this beca...
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul...
