Vidya Vox Quotes

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

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.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

People have mentioned, 'Maybe you should try to be more sexy. Look at how this butt stuff propelled this person to the top of the chart; it's amazing!' And I'm like, 'What if I really want to sing something to people?' I speak my mind. I want to be that person people feel they can listen to.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.