Brian Harvey Quotes

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.