Artistic Quotes

To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

When I started I didn’t know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.