Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

People think your life's different because you've got money, you've got fame, so they don't treat you the same.

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic mushrooms. He made it seem like we were all shooting heroin into our eyeballs. But that's part of the whole '60s and what it represented: feminism and civil rights and trying to stop the war. Hopefully we're starting to see some of that optimism again, through the excitement around Barack Obama.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.