Quotes About Originality

The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to "have it all," the sooner it will die.

Patagonia's authenticity lies in not being concerned about having an image in the first place.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.

As Hurston herself noted, "Roll your eyes in ecstasy and ape his every move, but until we have placed something upon his street corner that is our own, we are right back where we were when they filed our iron collar off.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I've always been a little different in the way I've done things, going to high school instead of a tennis academy when I was younger.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

I hate it when people match their clothes, shoes and accessories.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

I admire people who are creative.

I'm my own person and my own player. Not that I don't admire other players and try and do similar things.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

We've always wanted to aim to be the only one and hopefully one day we'll be able to create this new genre called Babymetal.

I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.