Top 30 Tash Sultana Quotes

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

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

I love San Francisco for the music culture. There’s this vibe there that I can’t find anywhere else in the world. Easily one of the best places on the sea coast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I’m not a feminist.

It’s like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I’m about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.

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

I’m not that cool or anything.

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 am not a genre-based artist.

If I’m in a good headspace, then it doesn’t matter which direction things go.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I reckon I’d be probably, like, in the gutter somewhere if I didn’t have music.