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A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.
If you love god, burn a church.
...balance the budget ? Tax religion.
Don't hate the media, become the media.
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!
If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.
If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.
The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.
We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.
Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.
I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.
Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath
I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.
I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.
When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.
That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.
I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.