Dexter Gordon Quotes

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

To be honest, I think I would like a really fun, quirky character with an interesting background.

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

Kids always like the villain or the guy who's different.

I'm the one that's used to being not normal.

I've always been weird.

My family thinks I'm crazy and weird.

I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

There can never be another Kishore Kumar.

My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.

I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.

I'm so quirky and weird, so I need a weirdo to hang out with!

My mom is not typical in any way.

I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.

I'm not the most normal type of person there is.

Everyone at a performing arts schools is weird. The weirder you were, the better. If you weren't weird in some way, they'd look at you and be like, 'Who's that square?'

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

I'm the weirdest alien on this planet. I don't do anything by routine.

I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.