Song Quotes by Jello Biafra

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

— Jello Biafra

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

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

— Jello Biafra

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

— Jello Biafra

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

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Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many…

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

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From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone…

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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

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the…

— Jello Biafra

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

— Jello Biafra

Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the…

— Jello Biafra

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

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself.…

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If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in…

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In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out…

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In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and…

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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

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate…

— Jello Biafra