Quotes About Uniqueness

It always amazes me that once you cut through the clutter, people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same things, but somehow no one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way.

It is powerful- a symbol, a circle- and I know, I know, there could never have been another one.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

I can do a really loud monkey call. I can put both my legs behind my back. And I can stick my fist in my mouth.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

I can see how movie stars lose touch with reality. I can understand that, because you're told a million times a day in so many little gestures that you're somehow special and unique.

And I don't want people to think that I make movies based on other films.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.