Lil Durk Quotes

At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I fight with pizazz. It's a different sound from everyone else. It's the sound of pizazz.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.