Tom Glazer Quotes

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I don't do any art to please any people.

Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

To be honest, I'm really not interested on how I'm viewed as. The only thing I'm interested in is to keep creating something special. Whether that something is synonymous to me or not is really none of my concern.

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.