Jimmy Rushing Quotes

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

I think that as long as you stay true to you when you're putting out music, somebody's going to like it.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

I'm not a story; I'm a person, and my passion is music. And I want your passion to be my music - so, judge me on my music.

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

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.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

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.

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

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.