Syd Quotes

When the audience appreciates your film, that's the happiest feeling for an actor because at the end of the day, you are making a film for them. When they like it and appreciate it, you feel your work is done.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to do when I started to write 'Next to Normal.'

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

All I really want is for people to really get what I do and connect with the songs and find meaning in them.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

I believe in my kind of music and I'm happy to have reached out to people through my songs. My dream was to sing my compositions and get accepted by listeners.

It is the greatest reward for me to share my story, my art, and my work. And people receiving that and being thankful and grateful, it once again resonates deep within because it reminds me that I am so much bigger than being a drag performer.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.