Quotes About Originality

I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses - because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 'trends' rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

I don't follow the food trends.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Trends don't interest me.

I don't like the idea of 'trends' at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

I don't think about fashion or trends - I've never really been that kind of person.

I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.

I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

I don't really know or care about trends.

I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

I am not really that big into fashion, where I am looking at trends or what everyone else is doing.

I'm not really into trends.

We've never been a musically fashionable band. We've been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following the trends.

You wear the clothes and the clothes don't wear you. Don't follow trends blindly.

I'm ahead of fashion: my clothes aren't fashionable at the time, but they become so. I set trends.