Waylon Jennings Quotes

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I just like doing things from my own head.

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.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.