Jerry Heller Quotes

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

A true artist is always out of his time.

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

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

All art is based on non-conformity.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I have always been ahead of my time.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.