"i'll tell you about punk rock:
punk rock is a word used by dilettantes
and heartless manipulators,
about music that takes up the energies, and the bodies,
and the hearts and the souls
and the time and the minds, of young men,
who give what they have to it,
and give everything they have to it.
and it's a term that's based on contempt;
it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism,
and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.
I don't know johnny rotten but i'm sure,
i'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat
into what he does as sigmund freud did.
You see, what, what sounds to you
like a big load of trashy old noise
is in fact the brilliant music of a genius. myself.
and that music is so powerful,
that it's quite beyond my control.
and, when i'm in the grips of it,
i don't feel pleasure and i don't feel pain,
either physically or emotionally.
Do you understand what i'm talking about?
have you ever, have you ever felt like that?
When you just, when you just, you couldn't feel anything,
and you didn't want to either. You know, like that?
do you understand what i'm saying, sir?"
- james newell osterberg, jr
"listen to the stage manager
and get onstage when they tell you to
none of the techs backstage
care if you're david bowie or the milkman.
when you act like a jerk,
they are completely umimpressed
by your infantile
display that you might think
comes with your dubious status.
they were there hours before you
building the stage,
and they will be there
hours after you leave
tearing it down.
they should get your salary,
and you should get theirs"
- henry garfield
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