Quotes About Rebellion

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.

I didn't really feel like a girly girl. I didn't want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, 'Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky t-shirts and flat caps.' It was just perfect timing for me.

I hated exercise. I would bunk every PE session and lock myself in the tuck shop.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

Believe or not, love me or hate me, YoungBoy is Tupac, man.

I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

With rock 'n' roll, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, the Runaways, there was always that feminine spirit.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.