Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I don't ever wanna be mainstream.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I've never been a mainstream kind of guy.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.