Jello Biafra Quotes

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Size counts. That's all.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.

What is important is the character that I play. Making an impact is far more important than the length of the role.

It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.