Michael Kirby Quotes

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I love doing things people don't expect.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

I'm a free spirit.

My style is that I have no style.

I love being unpredictable and unexpected.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

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

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

One should always be a little improbable.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

The less routine the more life.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

I think I'm like a free spirit.