Quotes About Defiance

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

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

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.'

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

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

I danced with passion to spite the music.

You can't take the sky from me.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

I am more than what they say I am.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

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.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.