Daryl Hall Quotes

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.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

I don't want to do the song-dance formula; there are many people doing it, right?

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

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

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

Conforming is not cool.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.