Carlos Santana Quotes

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

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.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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

I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.

I look to many different women for inspiration but try to make things my own.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

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

England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

My style is all to myself.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

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.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.