Andy Richter Quotes

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

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

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.