Quotes About Rebellion

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.