Curt Smith Quotes

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

I want to feel creative when I'm working. I don't want to just work for the sake of working.

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

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

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

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

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

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.