Jeremy Collier Quotes

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

Talent works, genius creates.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

There is nothing like practice.

One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.