Zedd Quotes

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

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

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

I make music because I like making music.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I just want to make music people like.

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.