Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Rebellion Quotes
AuthenticityIdentityMusicPassionRebellion There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
CreativityCultural InfluenceInnovationRebellionTrendsetting So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
AuthenticityEmpowermentIndividualityRebellionSociety I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
HumorImaginationMusicRebellionSociety If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
Essence of BeingIdentityInnocenceNostalgiaRebellion Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
CourageDissentJusticePrincipleRebellion If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Power DynamicsRebellionRevolution Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
ConformityHuman NaturePsychologyRebellionSociety The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
BoldnessIndividualityRebellionSelf-ExpressionYouth You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
FameIndifferenceRebellion I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
AuthenticityCreativityIndependenceMusicRebellion Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
HumorRebellionSubversion Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
ConnectionExistenceLimitsRebellion In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
CourageFreedomRebellionTruthWisdom It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
DaringInnovationOriginalityRebellion The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
IndividualityRebellionRevolutionSelf-DiscoverySocietal Norms I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
ConfidenceCreativityIndividualityRebellionSelf-Expression I like wearing things that other people wouldn't want to wear, to be a bit edgy.
DisillusionmentGenerational ConflictRebellion Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
IdentityIndependencePerceptionRebellionYouth When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
CreativityIndividualityInnovationNonconformityRebellion I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
CourageFreedom of SpeechInjusticeRebellionResistance For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They've made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
CreativityExpressionFreedomInnovationRebellion I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.
ChangeCreativityInnovationMusicRebellion I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
ArtCommitmentFreedomIndividualityRebellion The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
AmbitionCreativityIndependenceRebellionSelf-Determination Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
CitizenshipIndignationInjusticeRebellionSocial Critique To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
