Quotes About Nonconformity

Clearly, I'm not trying to write songs for the radio.

A man doesn't wear a red cowboy hat.

A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

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Better to be impossible than measured in centimeters

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

People call it Valentines Day, I call it Tuesday.

A pretty girl can kiss a guy, a bird can kiss a butterfly, the rising sun can kiss the grass, but you my 'friend,' you can kiss my ass.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

'Did you get braces?' Nah bro I'm just chewing staples.

If familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own hand prints on the skies; if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.