Charlie Murphy Quotes

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

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.

I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique.

You develop a voice and a process that's unique to yourself.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

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.

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.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

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

And I think I have a distinct voice.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.