Marianne Moore Quotes

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

I just couldn't keep on trying to please people. It was hindering my creative output, and I had to be honest with myself.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me.

Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless - which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.