K. D. Lang Quotes

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

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

I make the kind of music I like.

I associate creativity with independent music.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

My music is like my freedom space.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I think the main focus as a musician should be to play the music you love to play, and the rest is going to come naturally.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

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.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

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.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.