Miyavi Quotes

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.

My style is all to myself.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

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

Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

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.