Quotes About Unconventionality

The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.

I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.

We've all got our own brand of crazy.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

To do something very common, in my own way.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Pigs might fly, but they're unlikely birds.

there was probably something different about everybody and Karl's way of being different was no worse than anybody else's.

Go not as told by others, But by other ways go.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.