Jello Biafra Quotes

If you love god, burn a church.
Jello Biafra

Love, God, Church

Don't hate the media, become the media.
Jello Biafra

Hate, Become, Media

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

Die, Dead, Punk

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 Biafra

Life, Health, Care

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

Time, Great, Down

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

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
Jello Biafra

Evolution, Evolve, Outlawed

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.
Jello Biafra

Life, Trying, Against

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.
Jello Biafra

Money, Football, Poor

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.
Jello Biafra

Good, Women, Islam

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.
Jello Biafra

Country, Living, Serious

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

Down, Through, Creative

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
Jello Biafra

School, Important, Attention

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
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True, Last, Punk

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

Hard, Black, Older

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.
Jello Biafra

Live, Put, Point

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?
Jello Biafra

Help, Vote, Wanted

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

Nothing, Almost, Punk

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

Done, Band, Behind

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
Jello Biafra

America, Attention, Anybody

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Jello Biafra

Music, Writing, Start

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.
Jello Biafra

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

Writing, Through, After

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Jello Biafra

Time, Hard, Find

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

Alone, Mean, Done

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Nationality: American

Born: June 17, 1958

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