Randeep Hooda Quotes

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

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

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

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.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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.

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.'

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

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.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.