Danielle Dax Quotes

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

We write our own songs, play our own instruments.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I never felt like there were things I couldn't express lyrically in Vampire Weekend. I was always proud of everything that we wrote together.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.

I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.