Allan Holdsworth Quotes

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I hate to be categorized.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I have never gotten into the label thing.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

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

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I don't use labels a lot.

I don't put labels on myself.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

They always like to put labels on me.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

I don't pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.

I hate being categorized.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."