Quotes About Originality

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

I have done many comedies, but none of my roles are repetitive.

Who will you replace Dibakar Banerjee with? There isn't another one.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

Kudos to Lindsey, for sure, for us not doing a replica of 'Rumours.'

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

I definitely think 'Minecraft' is a freak thing. There's no way you could replicate it intentionally.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake.

You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

As a fan of music, there's nothing I hate more than hearing an artist write a new album off the back of a successful record. Usually they've rushed it, or they've gone into the studio with all the big guns to replicate what they'd just created.

It is fortunate that I am quite a secure person and my training flew in the face of what everybody else was doing as they were all just copying what the American bodybuilders did, as reported in the magazines. But it didn't take long before people were listening to me: it happens when you are Mr. Olympia.

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

I do not represent any product or any collection.

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

All said, even an Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan could not reproduce the magic of the original 'Devdas.'

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

Fans are hungry for original artwork.