Quotes About Individuality

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.