Tali Lennox Quotes

I don't do any art to please any people.

The things I do, I do for me, not for no publicity stunt or cameras or whatever.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

The key to success is to be honest, follow your passion and not someone else's path.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.