Browsing Topic Best Being Original Quotes

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

You don’t get on by being original. You don’t get on by being bright. You don’t get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

I’ve always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument – nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it’s always been drums first and foremost. I don’t reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It’s all very well doing a triple paradiddle – but who’s going to know you’ve done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It’s being original that counts.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

I’ve always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that’s going on would be – shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.