Travis Beacham Quotes

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I am an honest artist.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.