Quotes About Originality

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Getting to play a role that hasn't been played is such an honor.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.

I'm a different player. I'm a different person - large feet, big hands.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style. There's no one out there that does the same thing as me.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and demands a separate approach. Originality also plays an important role.

Please don't compare me to the best player of all time. Let me do my own thing.

You can't write something to please someone.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please everyone.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.