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

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
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Evolution, Evolve, Outlawed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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Done, Band, Behind

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
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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 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

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

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

Music, Stupidity, Important

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

Rock, Down, Punk

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Nationality: American

Born: June 17, 1958

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