Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
When the subject of rebellion comes up with friends, I often share this quote:
Real rebellion doesn’t feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
For all you musicians and entrepreneurs who are used to having people tell you your plan, band, or company will never work, let this be a great reminder of what real rebellion feels like, and how sweet it is when everyone else is wrong.
I just realized why I never took to San Francisco. I love having something to rebel against! It’s easier for me to love LA because so many people hate it. But San Francisco... because everyone LOVES it, I can’t!
Yes, but what’s his track record, and the track record of the other experts? He may have just gotten lucky. The fact of the matter is that you can’t really predict the future, you can just detect patterns and speculate. And sometimes you just get lucky and make a completely oddball prediction which just happens to be right.
If he’s a Cassandra that’s one thing, but there’s such a thing as randomly being right, too.
Oh, and also on the same point, if he’d been completely wrong, who would have remembered at all?
Type your comment here .I doesn´t Know,! !! Dig? STOP MAKING SENSE ! George Bush had just a comment on news; he said: ... the blame for our economic downfall is that we monitor too much our economics, rather than let it flow ´ NATURALLY ´....
to me it is a kind a same statement when Reagan went: ´ FACT`S ARE STUPID THINGS ....` George is probably the worst president ever...laughs.. oh my ....
MIND ya guys: Motzart died age 34 and was realized over 100 years later by some music scientist who discovered his compositions and went ´ wow´....
Bird died 34, too... the doctor predicted his age 64...
Hendrix died with just a few bucks on in his account.. at age 27....
Marley was 36... Himself predicting his death and illness 3 years earlier....
´Me gwon die at 36 like the Christ... ` Who are the real revolutionists? and what it is?
Now you tell me...
I just saw Steve S. video. ... few years ago he predicted the down fall of economics. Yep...They laughed at him.... but who´s laughing now? ... it is always the same.!! Like, When Finland went to EU money union, I predicted , what is in fact , now happening. The prices have gone up 400- 600 hundred % compared what it used to be. An example: coffee and a bun - now 3.80 € - Before, 3 marks ...1 € = 6 marks... and this was just 6 years ago .. Fuller´s EBS ale 6.70 € in pub...Today!. I Drank it, so I should know!
And so on... count for ya self.... I am poorer than ever because the paychecks are dragging.... like they always do...mind ya : THE ONLY LEARNED PERSONS ARE SELF TAUGHT. THE OTHERS ARE TAUGHT. - Erno Paasilinna, Finnish Writer.
why?
real rebellion is realizing that no matter what you wear, they can’t take away your thoughts.
this is true.
except when that band genuinely sucks.
I was just thinking about the INCREDIBLE amount of well-intentioned but terrible advice I receive every single day, some of it directly to me personally and a basically unmeasurable amount if I count what I could spend all day reading online. Thanks for this reminder that others are not going to get it, you just have to follow the path you create for yourself.
Right on! What glee we got out of this video. Thanks for using this to encourage musicians. My partner Tim Champion and I are determined to make this a big year for
our band and for our music. Our plan is to stay busy making music and gigging and making videos and making guitar pedals.. So far very good for The Hippy Nuts.
and Tim Champion pedals just got selected in the Best of 2008 in Premier Guitar Magazine. It’s a brand new business and it’s so exciting to be selling so many so soon.
Derek, you said to just jump in and start a business without lengthy business plans.
Thanks for sharing those pearls of wisdom. Everybody, keep on smiling. Kathena
Always believe in yourself and no matter what happens, keep moving forward towards your goal in life.
John Janes
being rebillion leads to innovaion and the way to freedom and self confidence. People who restrict their behaviuors and ambitions to norms of the society are boring and will not reach that far; but those who believe in their own way and don't give a damn of what others think about them, are the most clever because they will eventually get their goals by working hard as passion leads them, and they are likely to be the winners. my motto is: never suppress your self-actualisation because of social disapproval
Muy buen ejemplo. Me ha gustado muchos tu blog, toda la tarde he estado leyendo tus entradas (posts).
Enlacere varias de ellas a mi blog. El cual trata sobre Física, pero tanto la comunicación con las personas, como la administración y el liderazgo.
Saludos
I think the true value of this piece will be found by those who click on the link that explains the quote.
(I will not respond to the link here, except to say: I agree that attending a rock concert is not true rebellion)
I am old enough to remember when fake rebellion took the form of fashion accessories, such as wearing a peace symbol belt buckle, or everyone male in the class having long "liberated" hair but no one knowing the word "sexism" when the professor was fumbling to recall it. (I stayed silent just to see if anyone would get it, stubbornly keeping my ex-army short hair)
When I rebel or dissent or dress funny I try to do so as gently as I can, trying to make it clear to even the stupidest that I am not criticizing them, although I am doing what I think is right.
I could always get a laugh, especially if someone had just complained of feeling student angst (OK, that never happened) if I said, "I am proud to be a member of society."
I can tell you this much: If a rebel, musician or otherwise, doesn't care about me, then I don't care about him.
... I think I could like a clown...