Quotes About Originality

We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another way.

A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don't dub Stan Lee's work that way.

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

There's a big difference to when you stand up and sing someone else's song, but when you've actually written the song, you feel like you were a part of it, and you're a lot more proud of it.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.