Walker Hayes Quotes

Popular success is a wonderful gift if it happens, but like money, it's not the motivation. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

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

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

I feel so at home on the stage, and I love making people happy with my music. Whatever I have to go through to make that happen and get that sunshine is worth it.

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.