Romeo Santos Quotes

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

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

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.

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.

The music I make, I'm different.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.

I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

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.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

Sometimes when I get asked by younger wrestlers, 'Do you have any advice for me? What do you think you can help me on?' and I tell them I think the best advice is to try and outdo yourself. Always be unique, always be creative. I think that was part of my success. I never wanted anybody to be on top of me. I always wanted to be number one.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.