Eric Reed Boucher Quotes
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Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
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They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
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If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.
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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
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'Buy my soda!' said the Moose Diarrhea Salesman. And we did. We all did. But when we got it home and opened up the package, it was not what they said it was. And rather than chucking it all and searching for something better, we're content with looking for another Moose Diarrhea Salesman.
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I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
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Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.
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The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
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If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
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This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
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I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
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I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.
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I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.
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No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.
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Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
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Ronald Reagan - 'Grandpa Caligula'; 'Ronald McReagan' - No More Coccoons