Quotes About Rebellion

A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out!

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

I live wild and free and reckless, but that's the price you have to pay for rock.

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.