Top 40 Tash Sultana Quotes

I’ve got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it’s all worked out.

I find it hard to settle into a normal, routine environment.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I’m not performing a song: I’m becoming it.

I just have this real love and connection with what I’m doing when I play music.

I don’t busk any more because it’s gotten too dangerous.

That’s pretty much all I do – skate, surf, and jam.

My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.

I always play barefoot. I can’t play with shoes on.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That’s why it’s so addictive: because they just get into this state where they’re just completely one – they are in complete oneness. That’s what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

I chose busking because I didn’t want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.

Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I’m there. I’m stuck in it.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I’ve always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that’s kind of come.

I take alone time when I can.

I’m not that cool or anything.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can’t speak the same language, is crazy.

I’m not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

I’m just all for equal rights and stuff like that, but I’m not like one of those ‘Yay empowerment’ type of people.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn’t into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

I love the fact that there are so many people who have come to appreciate what I’m doing. That is just the best feeling in the world.

I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I’m, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

I can live on the road, no worries, because my life is scheduled, but when I come home to myself, that’s what I’m worried about, finding the balance.

I’m actually a massive dork; people just don’t know that.

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it – I’m serious: it’s an actual job.

I’ve got to deal with some stuff in my mind that’s pretty scary.

I’ve been living a healthier life and, therefore, writing healthier music.

I am not a genre-based artist.

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.

‘Free Mind’ was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn’t figure out how to put together – until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.

I’ve got a lot of pedals and a lot of knobs that need to be switching around during my performance, so I’ve taught my toes how to do that.

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

Music is multi-dimensional: it’s all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I’ve never played before.

I wrote ‘Jungle’ in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it’s this really upbeat song, but it’s not; it was just a really manic time, so I wrote a song about it.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

Music saved me from a really dark road.

I’m not a feminist.

I’ve played music that’s terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.

I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.