Gelsey Kirkland Quotes

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

Go ahead, Teleprompter, Go ahead!

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

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