Quotes About Originality

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I don't want to be anybody else. I want to be the best version of Christian Coleman that I can.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I don't want to be like anyone else or do what someone else did. I want to be like me and do what's best for me. I can't go do stuff Cardi B did - that may not work for me.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I don't think anyone has the same music sound as me. I can't think of anyone else.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I was different. I wasn't like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

I feel that I have my own personality and I don't want to be typed as anyone else.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.

I'm just being me. If I'm not enough, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to apologize about it.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.