Artist Quotes

Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Art matters.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

Stand up for what you know is right.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

I was put here to sing.

God has been with me in my whole career.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.