Kris Kristofferson Quotes

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.

I have never tried to bind myself in some kind of an image on screen. I have always tried to do different things.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

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

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

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.