Bobby Flay Quotes

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

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

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

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

I hate those articles - this is a pet peeve of mine - like move over X, here's the new Y. And it's just like, X didn't become obsolete because there's a person doing a similar thing. You also don't have to be like the new old-thing, you're just the current you-thing.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

With technology, everything is available at the touch of a button. But I'm not someone whose world revolves around trends. I like to be unique in whatever I do.

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.