Rick Nielsen Quotes

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

What I have done here no one has done before.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I want to be cutting-edge.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.