Alison Moyet Quotes

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.