Tarja Turunen Quotes

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

It's the most important thing, that you're happy with your music and your style. You can't create success and you can't create a successful band.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

The emotional power of creating something... Nothing gives me as much joy as that.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

Mooo!' was one of those songs where I was like thank God people like it because I like it, too. When I made it I was having fun so I can only pull positive emotions from that memory.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.