Creativity Quote by Evan Mandery

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

— Kinky Friedman

Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going…

— Alex Goot

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to…

— Luke Hemmings

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

— Serj Tankian

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

— Lukas Foss

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

— John Gourley

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

— India Arie

There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you have to…

— Greg Kurstin