Jerry Garcia Quotes

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

Being independent gives me freedom to creatively be great. Standing on your own doesn't always get major exposure or support, but because I make music from a pure place, I am more so excited and relieved that it actually gets out into the universe.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

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 try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

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 still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.