Kris Wu Quotes

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

I make the kind of music I like.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I don't know if I would compare my sound to anyone because I like to think that my music is my music.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.