Jello Biafra Quotes

• If you love god, burn a church.

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• Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

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• 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.

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• If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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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 danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it’s hard to find time to deal with them.

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

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• Well, I don’t think I’ll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• We didn’t have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

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• This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I’ll never run out of subjects for songs.

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• 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 picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

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• There’s sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

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

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• The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

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

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

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Jello Biafra (35)

Birth:	17th June, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Jello Biafra was born in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He is an American former lead singer for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. He is currently both a musician and spoken word artist. He is a member of the Green Party of the United States and actively supports various political causes. He is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice. His role in several films include: Tapeheads, Terminal City Ricochet, Highway 61, and Punk: Attitude.

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