Franz Grillparzer Quotes

We've all forgotten how to be original.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

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

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you're a young filmmaker.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

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

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

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

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

I think people are afraid to be original.

If you start shaping everything you do trying to be in step with whatever is going on in the world, you're often out of step by the time people hear it. It's a bit like fashion.

With technology, everything is available at the touch of a button. But I'm not someone whose world revolves around trends. I like to be unique in whatever I do.