WizKid Quotes

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.

The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.