Creative Expectation Quotes

You don't say no to a Shankar film.

Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

For me, my continuous struggle with every project is, "Is it better than 'Pink?'"

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch.

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.