Quotes About Individuality

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

I smash guitars because I like them.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.