Genuine Art Quotes

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, and I think audiences do, too. One of the reasons why 'Bloody Sunday' and 'United 93' work is because they felt real, felt truthful.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

I need to let people know who I am and instead of just trying to make great records, just be honest and make it more personal and make it more passionate, to make records with emotion and not be afraid to express that.

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.