Quotes About Originality

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

I can't bear a trite lyric: sometimes this can be overlooked, but rarely.

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.