Quotes About Originality

If you're doing what you think people might like, rather than doing what you like, people will see through it.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.'

I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.

'Piper's Pit' was totally unscripted - everything just happened - thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn: It can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the wrong person's brow. —Charles Browder

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

Conformity spawns conformity.

There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

Different is better than better. Different doesn't try to turn you into something else. Different allows you to highlight the singular traits you already have within you. You aren't necessarily better than your competition. But you are already different.

Who you are is the greatest differentiator you've ever had.