Quotes About Originality

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.

If Sinatra had packed in his style because there were a load of counterfeit Sinatras about, he would have stopped singing in 1956 or whatever.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

'The Room' was such a specific piece of cinema that worked because it was so sincere. That's the thing that's great about 'The Room': it's something that will never happen in the same way again.

I've always been Carlos Vela - sincere, original and true to myself.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I can't say, 'Damn, I want to sing like Beyonce.' All I can do is sing like Fivio Foreign and pray to God that's good enough.

I can sing other people's songs all day, but I'm ready for it to be my song.

I couldn't sing like Mick Jagger, not that I wanted to.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

Luckily, I've the ability to express my music exactly the way I create it because I sing my own compositions.

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

It's always good to show a different side of you as a singer.

After following the footsteps of the greats, each singer must carve out his own identity, else he will perish.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.