Quotes About Individuality

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.