Armaan Malik Quotes

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved with his recording and production company and also worked on some really great projects.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

I didn't want to be one of the 10,000 kids on the internet making beats. I went out there and got recognized as the white boy in trap music and made a name for myself.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

I believe every actor is trying to create an identity for himself or herself. My first song did that for me. There can be no other 'Kaanta laga' girl… ever. And I love that.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

Make your own place. Make your own. The engine that allows you to make your own dynamic, your own universe. Why are you gravitating towards somebody else's universe?

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.