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Quotes About Unconventional

Take the road less travelled.
~ Robin Sharma
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
~ Michael Johnson
Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
~ Walter Isaacson
Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.
~ Jack Foster
Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.
~ JT Sanz
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
~ Robert Fripp
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
~ Brother Dave Gardner
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
~ Freddie Mercury
I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
~ Dave Gahan
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
~ Morton Feldman
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
~ Carlisle Floyd
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
~ Tori Amos
See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.
~ Junior Kimbrough
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
~ Patti Smith, Just Kids
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
~ Louis Kahn
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
~ Katherine Dunn
Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
~ John Frusciante
If I was a freak of nature... Hell yeah I wanna do freak shows! I don't wanna be applying for jobs at the mall.
~ Doug Stanhope
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
~ Chip Conley
Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that.
~ Brian Blessed
I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.
~ Marty Pollio
Life's like a mayonnaise soda.
~ Lou Reed
All great ideas are dangerous.
~ Oscar Wilde