Quotes About Originality

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.