Quotes About Uniqueness

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

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.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

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.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

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!

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

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.

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