Cliff Chiang Quotes

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

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.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.

I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.

I've always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.