Ellen Key Quotes

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

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

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like doing.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

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

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I like being unconventional.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

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

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.