Billy Magnussen Quotes

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

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

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.

I make the kind of music I like.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

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

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

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

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.