Mark Ronson Quotes

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

Every album has its own character.

I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.

Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.

Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same as what I've been doing.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.