Trace Cyrus Quotes

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.

I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

I like artists to have some freedom.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.