Demis Roussos Quotes

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.