Quotes About Pioneering

Never follow the crowd, go where it's empty

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,Out where the smile dwells a little longer,That's where the West begins.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

I was always trying to be a quote, unquote, film composer.

I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had done before.

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it was. And I'm very flattered that I managed to do something historic, but in all honesty I was out there for me as a racing driver and to show everybody what Susie Wolff is capable of not to put my name in the history books.

My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.

When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited.

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Ram Gopal Varma cannot have a genre at all. He creates genres.

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.

Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

I fought when you couldn't even buy MMA gear at your local sports store or whatever. We had to make it ourselves.

I'm already the first Georgian to play in the Finals, but I also want to be the first to be part of an NBA title.

When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.

I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations