Quotes About Originality

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

New York seemed capable of creating everything but a style of its own.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

Do not follow others," Corot exhorted. "He who follows is always behind. You must interpret Nature with entire simplicity and according to your personal sentiment, altogether detaching yourself from what you know of the old masters or of contemporaries. Only in this way will you do work of real feeling.

If your born square you don't die round!

Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop.