Quotes About Conformity

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

I am only interested in money because everyone else is.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Chasing money to please society.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.