Quotes About Authority

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.

People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.

When someone oversteps the mark, there's a referee.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

We must respect the referee every time.

You can't applaud a referee.

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

The matches that I've been involved with as a referee, sometimes the heel likes to get up in my face a little bit and even at 65 years old, I don't put up with that crap. Most times or not, the poor guy gets chopped down a few times.

The army general will always be present because he is a reference for any Cuban communist.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.