Andre Benjamin Quotes

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.

I can't act without music very well.

It's so funny to see the evolution in my music and personal style as a whole because, for me, they all work together as art. As my music changes, I'm compelled to change my hair, clothes, or shoes. It all has to be cohesive.

Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.