Quotes About Originality

Any good music must be an innovation.

everyone is born unique but most of us die copies.

By being yourself on the page, you'll more than likely attract more readers because of your individuality than you would by hiding your personality behind a neutral style.

Technically, the song's a mess. It follows no known conventional nor commercial formula. It is just a string of dreams, flashbacks, flash-forwards, vignettes, completely disjointed ideas. It changes sequence, color, tone, tempo, all for

Regretfully, I have decided that if the Saint Saga must remain permanently in print in its entirety, then it can only do so in its original form.

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

It was unconventional, but conventions were there to make it easy on the fakers and cheats.

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.

I want to urge filmmakers in Bengal to choose a subject and mount the film in a way that there's a Bengali connect. They must not fall into the typical remake pattern.

For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.

The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.