Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I should do it myself. I just try to be an artist for myself. That way, it's a lot easier.

Sometimes people can see a movie of mine and not know until the credits roll that I wrote the score. That makes me feel good, that I can get out of that box every once in a while.

There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'

I reserve the right to be a participating citizen and artist.

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician first.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.