Stefan Sagmeister Quotes

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

The great love of my life is music.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.