I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
Ariana GrandeYou do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Kevin HartI’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Lana Del ReyIn a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David ByrneI grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
Billie EilishA lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve JobsI am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Paulo CoelhoI booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
Frank OceanMusic keeps the heart porous in many ways.
BonoI owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
Dave GrohlI sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam SandlerIt is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert CamusIn my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles Bukowski‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The WeekndFor me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.
Haruki MurakamiI know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
Lady GagaWhenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki MurakamiYou get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor SwiftWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerI kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
Clint Eastwood‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.
Dolly PartonI talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
Lady GagaYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack LondonNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
John LennonI’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis PresleyScientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
Ray BradburyI knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.
The WeekndI kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.
J. ColePeople like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Brian EnoLet’s embrace being not normal!
Angelina JolieI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.
Taylor SwiftSurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliI’m not a sheep.
Christopher HitchensI love Wiz Khalifa.
Taylor SwiftThere are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI don’t have a vast longing for the stage.
Anthony HopkinsI’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.
J. K. RowlingArrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia WoolfMany things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel JohnsonAll my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
David BowieI’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady GagaI don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim CarreySongwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.
Dolly PartonMy music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob MarleyIf you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.
Lana Del ReyI write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Isaac AsimovAn author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
Terry PratchettMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndMy whole life is a theater piece.
Lady GagaBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinThe lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.
Brian EnoAny artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Matthew McConaugheyRock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
BonoWriting free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert FrostI always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.
Jimmy BuffettSiren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.
Terry PratchettBasically, I live to do gigs.
Amy WinehouseIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton