Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

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.

If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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.

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.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

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

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

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.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.