Katy B Quotes

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'