Ramin Djawadi Quotes

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

My style is all to myself.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

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

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

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

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

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.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

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

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.