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

Similar Captain Beefheart quotes:
Other Creativity :
- The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution
- If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
- Music is a writer’s heartbeat.
- Never I’ve felt more validated in my life that through art.
- Creativity is like a muscle; you must exercise it daily or it atrophies.
- Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things
- French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.
- Understand the rules then break them. That’s creativity.
- The best businesses use the most imagination and the least capital.
- Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
- How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?
- For a Photographer – Having an OBSERVANT MIND is more important than having an expensive camera.
- Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
- If you are lost, find yourself by filling your days with constant experimentation.
- Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
- You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.
- Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it.
- People try to understand me and what I do. I don’t want to be understood. Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.
- Yielding to convention yields nothing new.