Flume Quotes

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

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

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.

I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.