Andre Gide Quotes

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

I'm really a normal person.

We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

I don't want anybody to be like me. By the end of my career, I don't want to hear talk of another Myles Garrett.

I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.

I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.