Dave Sitek Quotes

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

somtimes people say that you can not live your dreams. sometimes people say that you can not sell out madison square garden. well this is what i tell them-NEVER SAY NEVER

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Passion means finding a way.

When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

I had to go to the other side of the world to reach my dreams; it is possible.