Alternative Expression Quotes

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

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

Except I didn't say eff

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

You can put it another way, of course; you always can.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.