Quotes About Originality

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

But I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do you want it to become nostalgic; you never want to be a cover band for anybody.

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I'm not interested in fad songs.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.