Mick Fleetwood Quotes

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

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.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

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.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

All of my music is honest.

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.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

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

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever.