Free Spirit Quotes

Let us be free, the rest matters not.

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

Freedom Danced Before My Eyes

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I'm kind of a free spirit, you know what I mean?

If a poet would influence politics he must join a party, and then he is lost as a poet: goodbye to his free spirit and his open mind.

I've always been a gypsy.

I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.