When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don’t think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they’re going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It’s an unfortunate parallel to human behavior – they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I’d love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.