Kris Allen Quotes

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I'm a huge fan of Beyonce for so many reasons, and not the reasons that most people are. There's the obvious reasons - she's gorgeous, she's talented or whatever, but I think she's really super-consistent.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.