Quotes About Originality

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing!

I don't want to go to the designer that everyone is going to. I want to find a designer that maybe no one's paying attention to... And I'm not afraid to wear something crazy and ridiculous.

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

I can't be boring. If people like my designs, then meet me and find out that I'm boring, they won't want my stuff.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

Sequels are desperate.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

The learning from my entire career is: never compare yourself to anyone because it'll destroy you.

All the music has been done before except for the 'Eve of Destruction' and the 'Born in the U.S.A.' You keep reshaping - llke it was putty or clay.

I see things differently, feel things differently. That's how I've always been, and that's why I'm different to everyone else. Information: simple. Detail: simple. I just aim to play as if it was five-a-side as an 11-year-old kid. That's how I see it because that's how it is.

I like to be a little different. I like details. Whatever I wear, I always have a say.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

My belief is that if there are already games that other developers are putting out that are satisfying to the player, with great action or an excellent story, then I desire to create something different - a different type of experience.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.