Quotes About Originality

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

Try to be creative in everything you do, then only you will get recognized by the society.

Make music from your heart, even if it's experimental or not really common, try it out, it can only get you more recognized.

You just hope to do music that people will embrace... music that will be cutting edge and will be recognized.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.