Mark Cuban Quotes

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

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.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

All art is based on non-conformity.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

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.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.