Quotes About Originality

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.