Quotes About Originality

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

I personally make sure that my songs are all original without any technical help, and only when that happens that I get complete satisfaction as a singer.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I wanted to do a corkscrew moonsault backwards, so I had the idea of doing it forwards like the shooting star corkscrew, and I was aware no one else did that in wrestling. If I could perfect this technique, it would be unique to me.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.

Let's be honest: doesn't everyone look at Ronaldo's free kicks? I've looked at a lot of his technique, but I do it in my own way. I have my own style and try not to do the same.

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.

I want my films to be different, to use different techniques, not just make a calling card film.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

I am going to make singles with other artists and put those out there - I'd love to work with Bruno Mars, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. But when somebody buys a Tee Grizzley album, all they're going to hear is Tee Grizzley.