Joe J. Walsh Quotes

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because it's made by human hands.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

Some machine-y music is great, but you can apply any groove to any song now - there's literally a massive drop-down menu on most programs. And that's what takes the human being out of the process.

People should listen to my music because it's good.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.

I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.