John Carter Cash Quotes

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

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.'

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

I'm not very good at sounding like other people. When you're going through your 20's and trying to get a break and that kind of thing, and you're trying to do something that sounds like film music, your idea of what it would be, it never really worked out for me and it's only really when I learned to trust the fact that I could only really sound like me.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.