Quotes About Originality

He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.

I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.

The easiest thing to do is put someone in a file of somebody you already know. 'Hey, you remind me of Sam Kinison' or 'You remind me of Richard Pryor.' That's fine, because I know that's the process. Eventually, my own file will be created.

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

You're always going to get comparisons. Everybody comes out and says, 'He's the next so and so,' or, 'He reminds me of so and so.' I have so many influences and stuff in my brain, who knows what's going to pop in and come out.

I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.

I love a good remix! Moto Blanco did a great one of 'I Hope'.

I'm not just a remix guy.

If I just remix and release, no one will listen. I am adapting, changing the song and merging a new song into an old one.

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'

I don't see anything remotely like me in boxing, past or future.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.

Everyone is different, and so I don't want to repeat anyone else's career. I want to do mine.

When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.

I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.