Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher McCandless

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

Anil Kapoor

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

Andy Dick

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I like being unconventional.

Joaquin Phoenix

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

Macklemore

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

Steve Vai

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

Steven Spielberg

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Robert Schumann

The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Eddie Vedder

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Jeremy Bulloch

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

James Frey

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Peter Singer

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.