Quotes About Originality

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

My fashion sense is relatable but stands out because it's my own.

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

It's important to me that my music stands out. 'Taki Taki' doesn't sound like anything else out there, and it's hard to do that when you are on the road all the time, but it's really important to me that how people feel about my work. It was the same with 'Magenta Riddim.'

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

When scoring music, the idea is to ensure that your song makes it to the playlist on your audiences' music player and stands out from the multitude of songs released every day.

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.