Brad Grey Quotes

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

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.