Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes you stand out as an artist. I am not chasing the same things as Fergie or Will.i.am.

There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.