Jillian Hervey Quotes

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

I have been drawing all my life.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

I chose busking because I didn't want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I feel like I was always singing. Since I could speak, I could sing. It came very naturally. In school, I was always singing in choruses and choirs. I always loved to sing; it was something to fun to do.

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.