Andy Taylor Quotes

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

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.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.