Quotes About Rebellion

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

I smash guitars because I like them.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.