Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Artists need to express.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

There is no art without Eros.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.