Quotes About Originality

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

I'm not a character, so how I rap is just an everyday thing.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

I don't even feel like a rapper.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.