Laura Schlessinger Quotes

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

You just never know when today's cultural outcasts will become tomorrow's cultural icons.

The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

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.

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He's so passionate... about art, about culture, about creativity. And he's really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

Conservative is the new counter culture, and I consider myself to be a member of the counter culture.

We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating meaning from their lives.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.

Nothing changes in the world because of cinema.

My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.

What we didn't realize then - and one of the many things Timothy Leary was wrong about - is that when you drop out, you inevitably also drop in.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

I was waiting for the world to change. I'm no longer waiting; I'm part of that movement. I think our role as performers and entertainers is so much bigger.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.