Quotes About Nonconformity

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

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

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

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.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

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

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.