Michael Hutchence Quotes

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

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.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

I don't want to emulate anyone.

I don't get inspired by too many people because I like uniqueness. I'm a unique dude.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

I don't want to be anyone's mimic.

Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.