Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

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

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

Follow no path. Make your own.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

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.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

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.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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