Originality Quotes

"The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring."

"Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal."

"The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently."

"I don't wanna be like everybody else."

"Of course you can't do anything completely original."

"It's different, I don't sound like anyone."

"I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song."

“What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.”

“It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.”

“We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.”

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."

Albert Szent-Györgyi

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

Richard Feynman

“As a designer, I'm not interested in trend.”

“Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.”

“I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement. It had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.”

“No man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Herman Melville

"My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don't follow trends. Start them!"

Frank Capra

"It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."

Jean-Luc Godard

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."

Ingrid Bergman

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

Frank Zappa

"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."

Billie Holiday

"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."

Billie Holiday