Creativity Quote by Sonny Rollins Download Open image “No one is original. Everyone is derivative.” — Sonny Rollins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Derivatives Inspirational Jazz Love Music Musical Originals
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
There is no individuality if your idea of being original is to follow the trend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not… — Nick Damici Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there are so… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
