Ray Bradbury Quotes

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

You need to be your own individual.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.