Jackson Browne Quotes

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I am very into making up my own rules.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

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 grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

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

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

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.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

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

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.