Quotes About Originality

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

I never compromised myself musically.

I love Kanye, I love what he does musically, I love his ability to push the envelope.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.