Quotes About Originality

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Hacking is really just the act of finding a clever and counterintuitive solution to a problem.

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

There are no exact duplicates in nature. Each human is unique. When we seek to be like the next person, we lose autonomy. Failure often is the result of following the crowd. If the character of the person we are following lacks strength, honesty, and courage, that person's weaknesses can become ours. Conversely, following someone who exhibits those attributes reinforces one's own resolve and character.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. —

There is nothing new under the sun. The only meaningful question is who gets to hold the reflective lens." Passion