Scott Borchetta Quotes

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

I only make films when I have something to say.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Art is meant to disturb.

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.