"If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You don't want to sound like Michael Jackson; you want to sound like yourself. The only way you're ever going to get anywhere, and stay there, is by being your own self."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Charlie Daniels

• "A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day ..."
• "Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I ..."
• "But it's hard for me to see myself in that light, that I was a ..."
• "Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country ..."
• "Every award I've ever received has been very gratifying. The Living Legend Award was extremely ..."
• "I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. ..."
• "I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting ..."
• "I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly ..."
• "I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting ..."
• "I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten ..."
• "I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much ..."
• "I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the ..."
• "I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that ..."
• "If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen ..."
• "Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to ..."
• "My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for ..."
• "Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so ..."
• "The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the ..."
• "We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in ..."
• "We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever ..."
• "Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been ..."

• "When somebody like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan would come to town, I would do ..."