Beth Ditto Quotes

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life