Dan Hicks Quotes

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating it.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

I've always been very independent, and I love being able to enjoy different parts of music. It's amazing to be able to hear the sound in your head and instantly make it come to life.

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.