Mohamed Hadid Quotes

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 always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

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

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

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

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

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.