Faker Than Quotes

#1. Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

Chet Faker

#2. I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Chet Faker

#3. The day you stop clapping at a gig is the day your soul dies.

Chet Faker

#4. Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.

Jim Lee

#5. You can't rush an art form.

Chet Faker

#6. Sometimes it feels like it's show after show after show - like it's 'Groundhog Day,' and you feel like you're lost in the system.

Chet Faker

#7. It was definitely hard when I first started, and by no means do I consider my live show to be where I want it to be; it will develop step by step for the rest of my life.

Chet Faker

#8. Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

Chet Faker

#9. I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

Chet Faker

#10. Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.

Jonathan Kellerman

#11. You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

Chet Faker

#12. It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!

Chet Faker

#13. I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

Chet Faker

#14. My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Chet Faker

#15. I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Chet Faker

#16. An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot ... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Chet Faker

#17. All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

Chet Faker

#18. I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Stephen Chbosky

#19. Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

Chet Faker

#20. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

#21. I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Chet Faker

#22. Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

Chet Faker

#23. I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

Chet Faker

#24. The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa

#25. I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games ... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

Chet Faker

#26. Sleep is getting to be like gold.

Chet Faker

#27. I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It's easier to be proud of what you're wearing if you've met the people behind the brand and there's more of a personal story.

Chet Faker

#28. Every fortune-teller I ever met was a faker. First thing you should do to a soothsayer is poke them in the eye and say, 'Didn't see that coming, did you?

Mark Lawrence

#29. I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

Chet Faker

#30. I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

Chet Faker

#31. I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Chet Faker

#32. I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

Chet Faker

#33. I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Robert Downey Jr.

#34. I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

Chet Faker

#35. I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

David Bowie

#36. What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

Chet Faker

#37. That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

Chet Faker

#38. 'Yo I'm from Africa'
Boy you're just a faker.
Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!'
Wrong! And I think that's a shame,
An African look with an American name ...

King Sun