Seth Godin Quotes

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

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.

All art is based on non-conformity.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

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

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

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.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.