Brad Paisley Quotes

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

I don't like rules.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I don't take well to rules.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I don't make any rules.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

He who saith “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe.

… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself

British people do not like being bossed around.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

School is not for me. I'm volatile and hate being told what to do.