George Harrison Quotes

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

I'd rather have people dislike my style than change it. If someone says, 'Hey, Yngwie, you play too damn much,' I don't care. They way I play is the way I like to play. If people like it, great. If they don't, it's still fine with me.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.

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

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I am not an easel-kisser.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.