47 Famous Quotes By Belle Perez For The Musicophiles
If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.
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.
The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.
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.
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.
We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.
Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
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.
If you love god, burn a church.
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.
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.
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
Don't hate the media, become the media.
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.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.
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.
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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.
No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
