Jello Biafra

Musician

1958-06-17

Quotes by 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.

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• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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

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

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

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• A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

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