Paddy Considine Quotes

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

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

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

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 pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

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 try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.