Nadia Ali Quotes

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

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

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

I think when we do our job right, our artists don't sound like anybody else. I have a real hard time with voices that sound like other big voices.

The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes you stand out as an artist. I am not chasing the same things as Fergie or Will.i.am.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

I like artists with a life, where it's not this universal thing anybody could sing. I want them speaking to me in only a way that they can. To me, that's what makes it good.

Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.