Jim Root Quotes

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

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

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.