Corey Taylor Quotes

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

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