Quotes About Rebellion

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.