Quotes About Originality

The country has been shaken up by me. I am just being myself.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

Being real is what is important.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

Honestly, you cannot go wrong with being yourself.

Just keep being yourself. Keep being yourself, and people recognize it.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

If you believe in yourself, you don't have to do things the same way everyone else is doing it.

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

Don't ever try to be normal because it's the first symptom of a terminal disease. As soon as you feel the need to be normal coming on, get the antidote. ... Just make sure you're living your life; don't let normal pretend to be you.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you cause you're all the same.

Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.