Graham Moore Quotes

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

Where's your will to be weird?

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.