Ziggy Marley Quotes

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

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

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

One consistent good thing I can say about the music industry is that at least I can make music freely now, and I don't have to do it when I'm off of a nine to five shift or something.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

Obviously spending my teenage years in music, and in popular music, I wanted to continue this career, but in a way that allows me to dictate it and create it myself as opposed to relying on third party or more corporate decision making.

I like artists to have some freedom.

When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

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

I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I've got more creative control when I do music.