Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

I just don't conform very well.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

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.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I like being unconventional.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

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

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I make no concessions to conformism.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.