Alma Gluck Quotes

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I want to sing because I want to sing.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

Bollywood was never on my to-do list. It just happened.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher or a publishing model; I didn't really think about it, but then, somehow, it worked out in my favor.

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit.

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.

I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

Find a way to express what moves you.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.