Atticus Ross Quotes

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I'm still learning my craft.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.