Jello Biafra Quotes

• That’s the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it’s time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

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• 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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• 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.

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

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• Let me start by saying, I’m utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

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• 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 the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

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• If you love god, burn a church.

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• 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.

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• I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

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• 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?

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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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• For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

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• 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.

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• Don’t hate the media, become the media.

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• 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.

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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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