Jerry Heller Quotes

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Punk music is rebellious.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.