Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

What a dull world it would be if everyone were modest, discreet and loyal to that conformity which is called good taste! If, in short, there were no fools to keep us amused. What would divert us from the deadly routine of seriousness?

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Hunter S. Thompson

There's a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It's a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I'd take advantage of it while you can.

The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story.

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.