Martin Heidegger Quotes

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

No man was ever great by imitation.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

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

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

I've already created my own thing.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

You may pretend to a civil independence, but the rest is a chimera. You are tied to me like a moon to a planet. I am not your enemy, but some force must be applied so that you follow in my step.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.