Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.