Chrissie Hynde Quotes

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I always strive to make my music unique.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.