Walter Becker Quotes

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

It is always possible to create something original.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

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

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

It's very difficult to be original.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Originality is really important.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.