Roy Price Quotes

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

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

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

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.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.