Gary Rossington Quotes

The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

The great unwashed

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

I've always identified with the misfits.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

My mum and dad came from lower-working-class Glasgow, which was tough. Literally, if you see a cat there with a tail, it's a tourist.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

I come from very humble beginnings.

You can't be a punk all your life.

I've always enjoyed being... I guess you would call it the underdog.

I've always been an underdog.

I am strangely attracted to the hooligan crowd. I find them actually less dangerous than some of the people I work with now in Hollywood.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.

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

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

I'm just not very rock n' roll.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'