For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. Jello Biafra More Quotes by Jello Biafra More Quotes From Jello Biafra 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. Jello Biafra inspirationideasart If you love god, burn a church. Jello Biafra churchgod-loveifs 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. Jello Biafra independentnamesthinking Don't hate the media, become the media. Jello Biafra mediahateinspirational Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it. Jello Biafra punkdangerousrocks Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys. Jello Biafra disgustedmemberslet-me 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! Jello Biafra girlhateyears I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure. Jello Biafra national-treasuretreasurethinking 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. Jello Biafra omissionmediacreative Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. Jello Biafra payattentionamerica Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically. Jello Biafra wellsfrustratedthinking My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money. Jello Biafra realheartattitude I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums! Jello Biafra rockstiredskulls 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. Jello Biafra drunkbelievelying 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. Jello Biafra had-a-great-timevotingyears I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local music establishment, and I emphasize the word "establishment," was there in force, and the handful of us who knew the Ramones were up in front. And half the fun was, you know, not only were the Ramones the most powerful band I had ever seen at that point, but they made it look so simple - that anyone could do it, hell, even I could do it. This is what I should be doing. Jello Biafra powerfulfuncountry 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. Jello Biafra bandunderstandingdone It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. Jello Biafra should-havemeanhands 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. Jello Biafra growing-upmemoriesyears News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means. Jello Biafra warchildrenschool
