Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

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.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

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.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.