Roddy Ricch Quotes

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.