Randy Jackson Quotes

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically.

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job, as far as I can see, is to do the music that I want to do.

Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.