Troy Carter Quotes

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

Music is something I can control.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my specific story: what I see right now.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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.