Quotes About Originality

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

We can make two predictions, though. First, the more human inventiveness we encourage, the better that's likely to work out for us.

I don't know how or why I had decided Mrs. Maddox must be a blonde - but a state of mind that produces scenarios filled with Octogenarian Lovers! and Socialites Programmed for Attack! can hardly be held responsible for the triteness of its imagery.

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

Mediocrity is the standard rather than the exception among practicing artists (Sturgeon's rule: 90 percent of everything is shit)

a novel that does its own stunts

I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.

The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard.

Yes, I think you're the first person to think of this.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Everything I write for the first time is written with a pencil.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.