Ted Dwane Quotes

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

Everyone thinks of me as some weird swamp trash pro wrestler, and that's okay - think what you want - but I'm an intelligent person, and I have my own views on the world.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.