Quotes About Rebellion

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

If someone tells me I can't wear something, that's the moment when I want to wear it.

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.