Jello Biafra Quotes About Punk

Quotes about: Punk

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

  Jello Biafra

  Corporations, Punk, Produce

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

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Punk, Dangerous

• 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.

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  Independent, Thinking, Names

• Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

  Jello Biafra

  Creating, Stupidity, Important

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

• 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.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, Mtv, Shopping

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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

  Jello Biafra

  Labels, Band, Lasts

• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Hippie

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

• In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Attitude, Nice, Two

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

• From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

  Jello Biafra

  San Francisco, Different, Band

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Ethics

• The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.

  Jello Biafra

  People, Interesting, Brain

• 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

  Attitude, Real, Heart

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

  Jello Biafra

  Tired, Rocks, Skulls

• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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