Mo Udall Quotes

Everything has been said but not everyone has yet said it.

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.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

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

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Where's your will to be weird?