Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.