Matthew Shipp Quotes

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

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

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try to offer clothes that allow that. I myself do not like being defined so readily, so I imagine that she is similar?

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I don't want to be easily defined.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

I think there are small treasures and blessings inside of our imperfections. But there are so many people in the world that oppress you for being an individual if you don't fit in with the rest of the crowd, if you don't run with the herd. It's always perplexing to me when I see people mad at other people for being who they are.

It's OK to be different, and it's OK to not follow.

Be different - without concern for what others think.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I just don't conform very well.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

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.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.