Snoh Aalegra Quotes

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

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

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I believe in dancing.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

All of my music is honest.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.