Alan Bates Quotes

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

Whatever content you create, let it revolve around your interests. You shouldn't create things just because you think other people want to watch it.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

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

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

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

I want to tell stories that I feel for, and I don't want to be a sell-out.

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

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me.

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.