Greg Rucka Quotes

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I always strive to make my music unique.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.