Quotes About Sincerity

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.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

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

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

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.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.