Quotes About Originality

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Never try to copy a successful personality.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

The creating individual is always more important than any established style or system.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

We called ourselves Child, and we played the bars and nightclubs of the late-sixties Shore. We played original music with some covers, and the simple fact that we were so good was all that kept us working.

I never wrote completely in that style again. Once the record was released, I heard all the Dylan comparisons, so I steered away from it. But the lyrics and spirit of "Greetings" came from an unselfconscious place. Your early songs emerge from the moment when you're writing with no sure prospect of ever being heard. Up until then, it's been just you and your music. That only happens once.

I decided the world was filled with plenty of good guitar players, many of them my match or better, but how many good songwriters were there?

I think I could write another book as surprising as this one, or even as weird as this one; but it would no longer surprise people that I can be surprising. My audience would no longer find it weird to discover that I can be weird.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

What a dull world it would be if everyone were modest, discreet and loyal to that conformity which is called good taste! If, in short, there were no fools to keep us amused. What would divert us from the deadly routine of seriousness?

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, - it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

What if it isn't so much Indianapolis trying to be Brooklyn, as Brooklyn wanting to capture something of Indianapolis?