Quotes About Rebellion

I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn't. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.

My ideas are threatening to the government.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.