Quotes About Originality

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Sometimes the best music is when you just put it out there.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.