Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "

Related Quotes:

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

GRiZ

Doing

You

Time

" I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope. "

" There's no such thing as a bad Miyazaki film. "

" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "

" The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be. "

" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast. "

" It is totally cool to be gay. "

" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "

" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "

GRiZ

Music

Myself

" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "

" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

GRiZ

Horrible

Cool

" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "

" My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking. "

" I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. "

" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "

" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "

" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "

" For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals. "

" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "

" I loved playing the saxophone. "

" 'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.' "

" Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it. "

" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

" There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.' "

" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "

" No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party? "

" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "

GRiZ