Quotes About Uniqueness

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

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

Only one music comes out of me.

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.

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."

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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].

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

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.