Ashton Sanders Quotes

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

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?'

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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.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.

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

It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.

People get sucked into being so show-bizy. I mean this is show biz, but I just can't do anything that's not in my DNA.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.