Amor Towles Quotes

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

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

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 essentially write for myself.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life.

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

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.

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'