Brian Lamb Quotes

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.