Kurt Cobain Quotes

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

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.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

It's important to be unconventional.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

Be unfashionable. Take risks.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.