Wayne Wonder Quotes

All of my music is honest.

My whole goal is to be honest and sincere with the music I'm making.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.

Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.

I'm all about authenticity.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

If it's not coming from your heart and if you don't believe it, then more than likely you're not going to be able to bring yourself to performances that justify playing.