The World Motivation
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
“I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.”
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they'll surface; maybe they'll never be heard, but I don't translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won't use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.
I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.
I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.
My first impression when I heard 'Heaven' was, 'Do not let anyone else have that song! I'm putting it on hold.' I knew it was special from the first time I heard it, and I thought my fans would love it as much as I did.
I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.
You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.