Paul Horn Quotes

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

To define is to limit.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I don't like being pigeonholed. Why would you want to limit yourself to one style or one genre? Labels are something I want to avoid. I've had it my whole life, being pushed into a place, a circumstance or situation I didn't want to be in. My motivation has always been to get away from it.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

I don't like labels.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.