Creative Credit Quotes

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?

I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

I credit God with giving me the idea for 'Top 40.'

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

I listen to a lot of what my sister Rhea says. I give her a lot of credit for my stuff. When people give me credit for my fashion choices, it's my sister who creates them. This whole fashionable avatar has been created by her. It's her brainchild. It's not me at all. Rhea really takes care of me, though I am older than her.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

The magic in 'Sholay' was purely because of Salim-Javed. I didn't do anything.

I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.

In L.A., anytime a show is a success, people come out of the woodwork claiming they had the idea first.

I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious. She was super involved, and is super creative, so I wore a lot of my actual clothes in the movie. Truly, Louise was my mom's vision. She really created an iconic character.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?