Marc Guggenheim Quotes

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.

Everybody has a priority. Mine is simple and clean acting, and my work, irrespective of the industry I am in, will not cater to anything else.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

I'll never put out some super-dumbed-down music. It'll always have some substance to it.

In one word, if I have to describe 'Damadamm!' then I will say that the performances, the music, and the script reflect sincerity.