Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

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

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

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.

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

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

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.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.