Beth Hart Quotes

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I do not let anyone use me and throw me.

I have learned that it's OK for me to say no to things.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

The only power you have is the word no.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

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

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.