Laurieann Gibson Quotes

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

'Billie Jean' was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.

'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.

When I sang in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne,' I never imagined the song would be such a rage.

When 'Kaanta Laga' was offered to me, I was in college, doing my engineering course. I did the shooting of the song for some pocket money. I never imagined it to become such a huge hit.

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

[Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

I think [“Shake It Off”] is awesome! It sticks in your head. I heard it one time and I was, like, singing it all day long! Of course she's gonna go and do a pop record if she wants to. She's an amazing writer so if she comes back tomorrow and says 'I'm gonna make a country record now', we'll listen to that and buy it too! I mean, it doesn't matter. I'm just proud of her for doing whatever art she wants to do; it's gonna be successful it's Taylor Swift! I have a lot of her material on my iPod and I bought the new single. I'm a supporter of hers.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.