Quotes About Originality

I don't go by brand names for directors.

Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don't write their own songs. Lot of top male artists and boy band artists, they don't write their own songs. They're just a product. They sell, they sell, they sell. They don't care about musical integrity, any of that kind of stuff.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.

M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [...] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that humanity is very much in debt to such people, whether it chooses to acknowledge the debt or not.

New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.

The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

On receiving his M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1587, Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) had already written parts I and II of his play Tamburlane the Great. Bringing fame to its author, and a new style to tragic theater, Tamburlane was the beginning of a brilliant, unfortunately brief, career. Marlowe's plays were to prove original in their earnest portrayal of single personalities who were deeply flawed, often criminal, but still somehow heroic.

Christopher Moore

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done--or would do--something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

I will never be like ordinary people. If I must be different, then let me keep that which sets me apart.

I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?