I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure. — Jello Biafra Copy Share
Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
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… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
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… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and did real… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops or baby-sitters… — Jello Biafra Copy Share
