Janet Weiss Quotes

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

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.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.

It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

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.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.