Quotes About Rebellion

Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there's no rock on there, that's a good sign - because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and I was well known for my rebellion.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!

I'm definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I'm gonna get 'Thug Life' tatted on my stomach one day.

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

It's very easy for the U.S. or Western Europe to have this moral line of right versus wrong, and you go, 'Well, that's breaking the law.' 'Why?' 'Because it's the law.'

I'm challenging the powers that be.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.