Tim Commerford Quotes

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I like rules that are broken.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Originality is dangerous.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Learn all the rules... then break them.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.