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“I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.” quote by Jello Biafra — Download Open image

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

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Don't hate the media, become the media.

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I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

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A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

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I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see…

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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…

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Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

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