Rosanna Pansino Quotes

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.