Max Richter Quotes

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

No one ever told me I had a good voice or anything; no one ever told me I could sing. They just let me get on with it.

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

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 want to become so successful that if I wanna fart on a track, I can, and it will sell.

I'm a songwriter and producer, so I'm always wanting to make my own stuff, and not use anybody else's.

I'm just really excited to get music out there that's not from the show, because it's cool to be able to break out and have my own stuff under my own name.

East Texas isn't known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn't the type of guy that put my name out there.

I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

Critics said I am nasal, but my fans made me hit. So I will not stop singing if critics don't like me.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.

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

Whatever you want to follow as your passion, it's about having the right mental attitude, having the right focus, following your dream and never wavering from it.

I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit into a particular box, and I wasn't a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.

I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.

Obviously spending my teenage years in music, and in popular music, I wanted to continue this career, but in a way that allows me to dictate it and create it myself as opposed to relying on third party or more corporate decision making.

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.