Quotes About Originality

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I responded to that challenge by being nothing like them. I carved my own thing.

I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

I've tried to maintain a certain bit of originality in that I don't want to necessarily sing like a soulful gospel singer or like an ethereal Celtic singer - I never wanted to be pulled into any one direction.

I can't really describe my sound.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

Listen to 'Dream.' It's just me all the way. It's like raw. It's gutter. It's real. It's authentic. It ain't like nobody else. Don't sound like nobody else, no nothing.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.

I feel like I have to create the Keith Whitley sound. That doesn't mean I can't borrow from the people I grew up listening to, but it doesn't serve any purpose to sing the same kind of songs they sang. When you do that, it's going to come out sounding like an imitation, whether it's meant to or not.

Your limitations create your sound.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn't sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of the best things for me.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.