Chamillionaire Quotes

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.