Nadia Boulanger Quotes

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

If I don't feel the music, I can't perform it.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

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

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Honest songs aren't written for money.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Our music is always a reflection of where we are in a society. That's what enables so many people to do what they do. So my advice is to work at your craft. Be the best you can be at your craft and do it sincerely. Even in the world we live in today, that will give you longevity. At the end of the day, I want the quality of my work to stand, not how much I did.