Quotes About Rebellion

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.

I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.

He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!' 'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?

When you were nineteen, you couldn't give a monkey's

Jim Morrison: I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos—especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. External revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside—reach the mental through the physical.

Isn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?