Bo Burnham Quotes

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

I've always thought, since the beginning of my career, that it was better to take your time and write some good stuff and then go in and not be pushed or forced into just crankin' stuff out, whether it was great or not.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

I think I have patient fans that want quality over quantity. It's more important to me that the project be the best that it can be and the realest it can be rather than rushing a whole bunch of generic songs, because I could do that. I could just put together some songs real quick that I really like. I only write and I only sing for a purpose, so if its not then, it's not going to be rushed.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

You must learn to wait properly.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.