Quotes About Individuality

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing