MF Doom Quotes

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.