Frankie Ballard Quotes

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

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

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.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

Ditko isn't a direct influence, but I really admire his work and how his personality always comes through the drawing. There's a honest and quirky humanity to it, and you always feel the artist behind the comic. That's really rare.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.