“Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 68 of 169
“I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.”
“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
“Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
“Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.”
“Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.”
“Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”
“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets”
“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”
“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”
“Dietrich would never do that”
“Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.”
“And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.”
“The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.”
“When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.”
“There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.”
“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.”
“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”