Alan Price Quotes

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

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

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I make the kind of music I like.

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.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.