Mark E. Smith Quotes

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

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.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

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

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.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

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

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

I always strive to make my music unique.

I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify with me if I sound like somebody who's already out.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.