Quotes About Originality

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.

I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.

I've only recorded my own songs. I don't consider myself a great singer, so I wouldn't be comfortable interpreting other people's songs.

When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

What people have to realize is this: You have rappers who are popular or whatever for the time being, but that don't mean you necessarily want to dress like them. You may have a guy who sells five million records; do you want to dress like him? When you see me, you think you may want to dress like that guy because that guy is fly.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

Even when he transposes Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' he injects so much of his own personality and his own world that it becomes a Wes Anderson story, and you forget that Roald Dahl is behind the story. That's the proof of great directors to be able to digest and recreate sometimes a classic.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

You don't want to disappoint, or feel like you're trying to recreate the magic of something.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

You can't really ever recreate 'The Room.'