Artistic Urgency Quotes

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.

We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.