Quotes About Sincerity

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.

I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be.

I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone else's. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it's who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

You want to know how I'm feeling? Just look at me, and I'll tell you how I'm feeling. Nothing is hidden. I'm all out there. I cry like a baby, I get upset, I stamp my feet. I'm not stoic.

I think that what makes you cool at the end of the day is letting go, not being superficial or uptight, and being different.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.