Quotes About Artistry

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

I know there are actors who won't kiss on screen, and I respect that, but I don't have any rules like that. I will stay true to the script.

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it's more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

I feel like Prince's artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in 'Purple Rain.'

Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.

Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn't before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.

I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.