GRiZ Quotes

I can make a record with six-part string arrangements and the best musicians in the world and have it be not genuine. I'd rather make a genuine record that I truly stand behind and have it fall where it may.

I'm not even going to lie - when I'm in the studio, I'm not like, 'Alright, let me make a hit.' I just try to make good music to the best of my ability.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

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

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that's how I pick roles. I don't want to play just anything.

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

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

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

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

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 love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.