Greg Cipes Quotes

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I started my own record label.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.