Quotes About Individuality

Only one music comes out of me.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?