Orson Welles Quotes

And I think I have a distinct voice.

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

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

My philosophy was simple: audiences shouldn't say that I just came, stood, and copied another comedy star. They should say 'Senthil acted in this.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

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.

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.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.

Don't try and be like someone else. There is already a Michael Jackson, a Janet Jackson, a Beyonce. You be you. And take advantage of the social media platform you have to share. That wasn't around when I started out.

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else.

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!