Quotes About Edginess

I think rock should always stay a little bit outside the pale; I think it should remain a little bit dangerous - a little bit ornery, as the Americans say.

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.

Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of

What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with hipness, coolness, edginess. So all kinds of youth all over the world are appropriating that style as a way of, sort of, countering authority, stating their rebelliousness, and wanting to be seen as significant.

It has an edge because it is so different. Soon imitators pop up everywhere. It becomes a fashion, something to conform to, even if the comformity appears to be rebellious and edgy. This can drag on for ten, twenty years; it eventually becomes a cliche, ppure style without any real emotion or need.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

I always looked at it as, the character of Edge gives me complete free reign with no borders, where you can get away with anything, just a complete... no social qualities, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It's not natural for me to be like that.

Coming off the back of the live album, there was a certain edginess and an almost punk energy that I've missed for a while.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

Oh, I get nervous quite a bit, actually.

Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.

His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.

I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.