Quotes About Authenticity

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.