Taylor Sheridan Quotes

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.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.