Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Even if nobody was listening to it, I'd still be making music.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have to. It's always been that way. That's how I write songs, and it's always been this way.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.