John Berryman Quotes

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.

Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.