Chad Hugo Quotes

I'm always vocal about people being unique and different in hip-hop.

You have to be unique.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

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

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

I want to work with anybody original.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

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

I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify with me if I sound like somebody who's already out.

I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'