Quotes About Individuality

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.