Miles Davis Quotes

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

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.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I'm in a band. I'll do what I want.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

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

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

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'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

I've always been in a rebel.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!