Hiromi Uehara Quotes

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

I'm inspired by other people, but I don't really try to look like a certain person or anything. I kind of just do what I feel like doing.

Be creative, have a good time, and be yourself.

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

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.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.