Damon Dash Quotes

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.