Quotes About Individuality

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.