Dave Navarro Quotes

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

You have to have a certain amount of grit in your sound, and having real synths and talking certain elements outside your computer can help with this.

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.