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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.
I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.
I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors.
I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.
I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.
My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.
It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.
I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.
Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.
A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.
In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.
I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.
I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.