Quotes About Rebellion

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

People shave their heads all the time.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

Scarlett did take pleasure in it. She bullied the negroes and harrowed the feelings of her sisters not only because she was too worried and strained and tired to do otherwise but because it helped her to forget her own bitterness that everything her mother had told her about life was wrong.