Thomas Newman Quotes

You have to be, become, the musician who can't be replaced.

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

My skills are still my skills.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

There is only one Kishore Kumar, he was exceptional. No one can ever be like him.

There can never be another Kishore Kumar.

No one can replace Amanda Tapping.

You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

My genius is in my nostrils.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.