Damon Dash Quotes

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

You have to be unique in your own ways and the ways that you play to find a way to win. You can't always go with the trend that's going on. Sometimes you have to create the trend yourself and be confident in it.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I'm not a sheep.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I like being unconventional.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.