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What is your favorite quote from a New Wave or Punk artist?

I just saw this:

[i][b]"When we first started out, we had 35 minutes of music, on a good night we could get it down to 25."[/i]- Elvis Costello[/b]


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"I believe I am the highest power, absolutely."

GG Allin

"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."

Henry Rollins

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
- Johnny Rotten

I drink because I'm thirsty.
- Shane MacGowan

If you love god, burn a church.
- Jello Biafra

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
- Billy Idol

Great thread!
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"Men do think of women as sex objects, they just do."

- Hugh Cornwell, The Stranglers.

Priceless.

[i]If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’m going to eat meat; that’s how much I hate Morrissey.[/i]

-Robert Smith

[i]Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.[/i]

-Billy Idol

[i]I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.[/i]

-David Bowie

[i]We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.[/i]

-Sid Vicious

I never claimed to be "original".
-Gary Numan

"I'm bored, just play the record, I'm bored."
Johnny Rotten to clueless radio interviewer


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Borrowed Nostalgia for the Unremembered 80's

Came across this preacher who chose to use some notable quotes from prominent musicians & industry figures (NW, Punk, R&R) to call attention to what 'evil' lies in secular music and some Contemporary Christian music as well.
[}:)](No surprise that much of it involves sex, drugs & related debauchery..heh,heh)[}:)]
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Keith Richards when asked what he thought of all the rappers shooting each other:
"I think they're doing a fine job"


Also, I don't have the exact quote, but didn't Elvis Costello make a comment back in the late 70's, saying something about smacking Sting in the head if he didn't stop using that fake accent?

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“Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.”

It's not a quote from a musician, but it's about music:

"The true sign that you're living through a golden age is the feeling that it's never going to end."

--Simon Reynolds, in "Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984" (describing how it felt to be young, British, and besotted with pop music in 1982).

[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>Came across this preacher who chose to use some notable quotes from prominent musicians & industry figures (NW, Punk, R&R) to call attention to what 'evil' lies in secular music and some Contemporary Christian music as well.
[}:)](No surprise that much of it involves sex, drugs & related debauchery..heh,heh)[}:)]
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He accused Earth Wind and Fire of being "an extremely occultic and new age group".

I KNEW it!

PS When I played the video backwards, the bearded man repeatedly says, "vote for Obama, I command you"!




<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

Coincidentally, I just now found this gem in a book review:

"When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing."

--Joe Strummer