John Grant Quotes

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

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

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

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

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.

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.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

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've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

You have to be who you are when you do music.

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

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.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

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 was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.