George Carlin Quotes

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

You don't often get what you ask for, and I got exactly that. I got a show that was on cable, that I could shoot five months a year and go be mommy the rest of the time, and be with a cast and crew that I really, really love, adore and respect. I got all of that.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

I’ve never done a film for the money

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.