Hugh Jackman Quotes

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

I don't have a journal; I write music.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.

Music is all about creativity.