Crystal Bowersox Quotes

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

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

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention.

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

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.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

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'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.