Jello Biafra Quotes

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.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

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.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

If you love god, burn a church.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

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.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

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.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

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.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

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.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

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.

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.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

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.

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.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

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.

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.

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.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.