Quotes About Controversy

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

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.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.