Agree Quote by Jim James

To keep myself anonimys in the press is that I felt was the right thing to do, in terms of making music. It's just…

— SBTRKT

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our…

— Dave Haywood

People are not able to just make music anymore; we have to do things that don't necessarily make the art any better. But that's…

— Flying Lotus

I think it's what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience beyond the…

— David Salle

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on…

— Cher Lloyd

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for…

— Jerry Harrison

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

— Kendrick Lamar

Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred…

— Eef Barzelay

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's…

— Eric Church

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

— Paul Oakenfold