Jello Biafra Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.”
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“Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : "Song: 'Message From Our Sponsor' (No More Cocoons)". 1987.
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“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : "If Evolution is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve". Album by Jello Biafra, October 27, 1998.
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“Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.”
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“Don't hate the media, become the media.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : "Political punk Jello Biafra takes verbal aim". Interview with Phil Cauthon, www2.ljworld.com. April 18, 2003.
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“I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.
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“My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.”
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“Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.”
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“Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : "John Bolton CPAC Speech Lambasts Obama". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.
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“If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.”
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“For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath”
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“What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.”
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“You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”
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“I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.”
-- Jello BiafraSource : Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 4, 1997.
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