Quotes About Originality

You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.

It's definitely a beautiful thing to have a little trademark or something that sets you out from everybody else.

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

There are so many clichés in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

Trust your creativity.

I know I could be Anything, But i rather Be Myself.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.