[Band Quotes]
"If you're not angry, then you're just stupid, you don't care. How else can you react when something's
so unfair?"--Ani Difranco
"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't."--Ani Difranco
"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."--Ani Difranco
"We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate."--Ani Difranco
"People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind."--Ani Difranco
"If you mow the lawn every day, all you will grow is resentment" (about unappreciated authority)--Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
"If you treat a girl like a dog, your going to get pissed on"--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming"--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature"--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. in fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!"--Courtney talking about drugs (Hole, Bastard)
"She's like this perfection, this utter purity that's uncorrupted by anything. And if somebody were to f**k with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them."--Courtney speaking about Frances (Hole, Bastard)
"You can't please everyone. I don't care if I get criticised. I don't give a shit if I get a bad review. I don't care if people say I'm a bitch or obnoxious, 'cos I am."-Courtney in 1992 (Hole, Bastard)
"I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it!"--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."--Courtney Love in 1992 (Hole, Bastard)
"Rock is really about dick and testosterone. i go see a band, i wanna fuck the guy -- that's the way it is; it's always been that way. i love competing with that, but i didn't come in here to, like, change that."--Courtney Love
"People want me to be evil because of how i come across on stage and on record. people really, really want me to be evil...and i'm really kind of not."--Courtney Love
"He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell"--Courtney after Kurt's suicide attempt (Hole, Bastard)
"Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet."--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I might lie a lot, but never in my lyrics."--Courtney Love in 1995 (Hole, Bastard)
"Somebody wrote "How can she rock in a Versace gown?" Well easy, let me show you."--Courtney Love in 1997 (Hole, Bastard)
"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel."--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me."--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"Bad girls love like lions and kill those who fuck with their kin."--Courtney Love (Hole, Bastard)
"Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up."--Joan Jett
"We're all strong personality types, which anyone who knows us will testify as truth, it's hard for any of us to sublimate our natural contrary anti-ness reactions, but ultimately I think that's our real power. We're not afraid to be bitchy , which is an important skill to have sometimes, to fight so you get your way. We have respect for each other so that we can disagree and it's not a big deal."--Kathi Wilcox (Bikini Kill, The Frumpies)
"It's a way to keep us thinking about scoring - not thinking about how to fuck this society up. Why not fuck up the government instead of fucking up your body?" (talking about drugs)--Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre)
"I won't stop talking. I'm a grrrl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth."--Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre)
"Yeah. So what? Boys should touch each other more, I mean, they don't fucking have to beat each other up. It's the only reason they beat people up is because they want to fuck each other."--Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre)
"Just cause you arent paranoid dont mean they arent after you."--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Vandalism is as beautiful as a rock in a cop's face."--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"We're so trendy we cant even escape ourselves"--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!" - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"It's better to burn out, than to fade away"--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"A friend is nothing but a known enemy"--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Peace, Love, Empathy" - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Don't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die."--Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."--Marilyn Manson
"This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face."--Marilyn Manson
"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."--Marilyn Manson
"People say I should shut my mouth. But fuck that, I am woman - hear me motherfuckin' ROAR!"--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"In my other bands, it was all really macho, and I kind of had to be macho too - I had to be angry, tough and hard. But now, I can be vunerable if I want. I don't have to scream all the time. Now I can like men!"--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"Don't be like me - fuck, be like yourself!"--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"Stand in your own truth and you will command respect."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"If I was a typical Californian girl, I'd be tanned with bleached blond hair, a boob job and a cocaine habit."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"If Robb Flynn speaks out, he's a strong man. But when a woman does it, she's a nightmare, big mouthed bitch. Its the same shit we've been fighting against the whole time and I'm sick of it. I'm not some psychopath. Its ridiculous."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"You have to live, breathe and bleed what you are doing in order for it to succeed."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"I've had interviews where people have been afraid to talk to me. They've thought I'm gonna blow up on them."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"When don't I use handcuffs?"--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually."--Tairrie B (Tura Satana, My Ruin)
"For girls to pick up guitars and scream their heads off in a totally oppressive, fucked up, male dominated culture is to sieze power...we recognize this as a political act."--Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, The Frumpies)
"You can feed off them for a while, but in the end, you're just a vampire." (comment about relationships with men.)--Tori Amos
"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."--Tori Amos
"Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power."--Tori Amos
"I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare."--Tori Amos
"When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly."--Tori Amos
"The dark side is not something most people think is inside them."--Tori Amos
"I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit, it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band."--Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit, Big Dumb Face)
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