Jeff Bezos Quotes

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

There's nobody like The B-52s. But doing stuff on my own, I can also express more personal songs.

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.

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 a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.