Bob Fosse Quotes

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

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

Whatever content you create, let it revolve around your interests. You shouldn't create things just because you think other people want to watch it.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going...everything else falls into place.

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

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

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I essentially write for myself.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.