David Hockney Quotes

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

My existence is rock n' roll.

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Rock'n'roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock'n'roll, or a movie can be rock'n'roll. It's a way of living your life.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.