Andy Mineo Quotes

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

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'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I'ma just rap and do me.

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

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

Pac was real, and he put everything into that music with the passion, creativity, and the drive, and I feel like it's all one in the same with myself.

Be yourself. It's really important not to try and be someone else.