Tyler Joseph Quotes

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.