Daphne Guinness Quotes

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

I cannot categorize 'Allama' into one specific genre. The movie is beyond boundaries.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

You have to be different, great or first.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.

I'm so quirky and weird, so I need a weirdo to hang out with!

What we were doing was alien in '92. We were less than immediately accepted by our fans and peers.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

I'm the weirdest alien on this planet. I don't do anything by routine.