Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bliss Carman

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Blake Shelton

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

Billy Higgins

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Billy Eckstine

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Billy Idol

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Billy Gibbons

Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.

Billy Joel

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Billy Joel

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

Billy Joel

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

Billy Joel

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

Billy Joel

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Billy Joel

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Bill Plympton

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.

Bill Paxton

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Bill Russell

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Bill Joy

The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

Beverly Johnson

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

Beverly Sills

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Beverly Sills

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Beverly Sills

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beyonce Knowles

The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.

Beyonce Knowles

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Beyonce Knowles

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Edward Gorey

Only art means anything.

Edward Gorey

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Edward Gorey

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

Edward Hopper

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

Edward Hopper

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Edward Hopper

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.