Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
Tony BennettRead
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
Interpretation
Creativity should be free and uninhibited; advice from the uncreative can stifle artistic expression.
The quote emphasizes the importance of creative freedom in the arts. When individuals who lack imagination or originality impose their views on those who are creative, it can hinder the true essence of art, leading it to become a mere imitation rather than an expression of unique ideas and emotions.
In practice
A teacher may use this quote to encourage students to explore their artistic ideas.
Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable.
My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Artists are the antennae of the race.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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