Quotes About Originality

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I am your original autodidact.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.