Quotes About Originality

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Art is competitive.

Ultimately, our competitive advantage is that we're the most creator-first company on the planet.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

I see it as a compliment to be compared to someone like Sharapova who has won five Slams. She's a great champion. I see it in a positive light. But also I'm my own person. I don't want to be the next someone else. I want to be the first of me.

When things come back and we're in some small way cast as the originators of a movement, we don't take it as much as a compliment as some people may consider it.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

I consider myself a composer.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

I like to make songs that are based on concepts.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

I was different from most young conductors today.

If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.