Beethovenโs music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and thatโs where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Donโt let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.
Rodney MullenSkateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.
Rodney MullenYou build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.
Rodney MullenWhat it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.
Rodney Mullen