Artistic Joy Quotes

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

When I go into the studio I just want to make something that feels good.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when I'm at these venues with hundreds of people, and they're all sitting listening to my music and my jokes, I feel like I could die that day, and I would be happy.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.'