Jonathan Dee Quotes

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Always try to be yourself.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

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.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I can't be like Brandy. I have to be me.

People who know me know that I'm the last person on earth that wants to be somebody else.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

I always have to be me.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to do. If you say you are a comedian that has been done before. If you just be who you are then you are unique. Everyone is unique.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?