Michael Schenker Quotes

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

In terms of my actual acting, I don't really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I've seen.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

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

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

It's okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people's music, but let out what's inside of you.

You can't just copy someone. There are so many different styles that you can just kind of pick and choose whatever it is you'd like to do.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.