Julien Baker Quotes

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

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Follow your own weird.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

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

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.