Quotes About Eccentricity

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.

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.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.