Quotes About Originality

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

The worst crime is faking it

I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.

Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Be who you want to be, not what they want to see.

What do you do, everyone can do, but what you are, nobody can be.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Woo the muse of the odd.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

Normal people think I'm insane.

There is unique pleasure in introducing the bizarre and inconceivable to others.

Inspired, Karou said, 'Hey! That's what you should do for your project. Make a giant puppeteer, and you be the marionette. You know? You could make it so that when you move, it's like, I don't know, reverse puppetry. Has anyone done that before? You're the puppet, dancing from strings, but really it's your movements that are making the puppeteer's hands move?

It's not copying, though. It's an homage. Of course, that's what artists always say when they steal from other artists.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Big L is that nigga you expect to catch rep on any cassette deck, I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.