Quotes About Rebellion

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

At some point, no matter how repressive the regime, the citizenry will come to comprehend the vast power in their hands. The destitute, the Indebted, the beleaguered middle classes; in short, the myriad victims. Control was sleight of hand trickery, and against a hundred thousand defiant citizens, it stood no real chance.

If you want us leading you, well, one thing us humans don't understand, and that's giving up. We fight when the fight's been thumped out of us. We rebel when all we got left that's not in chains is inside our skulls. We defy when the only defiance we got left is up and dying.

They take us at this moment, these unwavering men and women who presume to rule over us, and but point us in the direction of a weaker victim. This is their game, knowing or not, and as ever the assumption is that we'll never turn on our masters – so long as an enemy remains within reach of our blunted, frustrated fury. And

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes