Quotes About Rebellion

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

DJs are the new rock stars.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

There's only a few proper rock 'n' roll stars. I think it will come back - there's definitely room for a bad boy or bad girl. It's way too nice at the moment in pop, everyone's got to be so nice.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

I was Razor Ramon, and I started the nWo.

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.