Clara Schumann Quotes

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

I make music because I like making music.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.