Josh Dun Quotes

I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, 'The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.' They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I'm just always trying to do that.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

Drake and Kanye make me want to get better.

Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they don't feel like they've done it yet. It pushes you to evolve.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.