Some Cool Quotez

 

"When Eminem grows up, he's going to regret a lot of the things he's said."

– Krist Novoselic, former Nirvana bassist and President of JAMPAC, discussing censorship and politics in music.
(Quoted at a recent Spitfire Tour appearance in Seattle.)

 

"In most societies throughout human history, drug use has been treated realistically–as a health problem, not a moral problem. Have our drug laws prevented anyone from using drugs? Apparently not. Have they given us the world's largest prison population, cost us billions of dollars and helped create the most violent society in the first world? Yes. From an objective point of view–what's the point?"

– film critic, Roger Ebert
(excerpt from his review of the documentary "Grass")

 

"The problem is not only to know what is occurring in the world, but to understand it and to derive lessons from it-- just as if we were studying history-- a history not of the past, but a history of what is happening at any given moment in whatever part of the world... By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies, the independent media has a life work, a political project and purpose: to let the truth be known."

Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
from the "Freeing the Media" teach-in.

 

 

"Hell no. What have we been fighting for?"
Winston Churchill
when asked to reduce funding for the
arts after World War II.

 

 

"Keep moving forward. Don't waste time complaining. Inform, entertain, and aspire to inspire those who will listen. Disregard critics who would divert you from your path. Learn from, and champion, the work of others you admire."
Henry Rollins

 

 

"It is not that our popular music is any more violent than, say, European heavy metal. It is not that we have more violent video games than say, Japan. ... What we do have a lot more of in America is inequality and guns."
Tom Morello
guitarist of Rage Against the Machine
commenting on attempts to blame rock
music for the Columbine massacre.

 

 

on a similar note:

 

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love each other."
Frank Zappa

 

 

"The most preposterous notion that Homo Sapiens have ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
Robert A. Heinlein
author of Stranger in a Strange Land

 

 

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health. I did it for the health of the chickens."
Isaac Bashevis

 

 

"It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past."
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

 

"Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts. Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public's 'right to know'."
Kenneth Starr, 1987,
interview with Diane Sawyer on Sixty Minutes.
(A mere decade later, look what he did!)

 

 

"I like it as a book, just like I like The Cat In the Hat "
Marilyn Manson
Talking about the Christian bible on
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

 

 

"Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe."
Frank Zappa

 


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