Quotes About Authenticity

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.