Jim James Quotes

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

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

I would love for my existence as an artist to be completely about my art - not about my social media, or what I do vs what's cool right now, or even whether or not I sound okay in an interview.

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

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

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.

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

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.