Quotes About Rejection

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.