Quotes About Originality

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

The 'copy, paste' mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs - be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else's journey is mirroring it.

My mentally for my character is you have to be first, better, or different. I know that I'm not the best at everything; in fact, I'm not the best at a lot of things, so I'm going to be different, or I'm going to be the first one to do it.

I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

People should know that I am Dybala, and I want to continue to be so. I understand the comparisons and expectations on me from the Argentines, but I don't want to be the new Messi or the Messi of the future.

I'm not saying there's not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it's just the same thing, over and over.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

Though I'm not a huge fan of The Rock, I admit that I am a fan of the fact that he does his own thing. He gets excited on the mic. He yells. He didn't listen to what people told him to do, and people responded to that.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I don't just throw out microwave records.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

If everyone's rocking the same cool, hard-to-find fabrics, they might not be as cool and hard to find as you think.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

I'm not convinced that creative people have mentors because that's what makes them different; they just do their own thing. If anyone had tried to tell me how to go about something, I'd have run a mile. But I have certainly had a few influences in my life.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.