Sharon Lawrence Quotes

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

I have never been too concerned about things you're supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there's something underneath all that.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

I don't like to box myself into anything, because I also sing and I love to dance; I do everything.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

I don't like to try to put, like, 'Let's do this type of record,' 'cause it never turns out that way anyways.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it a few different ways. You have to be flexible; you have to be in collaboration with the director; you have to be versatile. But you also want to be protective of what you really believe in and how you feel it should be portrayed.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.