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Jello Biafra
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 17
,
1958
Band
Me
People
Punk
Think
You
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra
You
People
Money
Spend
Football
New
Course
Housing
Stadium
Golf
Golf Course
Poor
Poor People
Homeless
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
Jello Biafra
Will
Evolution
Evolve
Outlawed
Only
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
Jello Biafra
Life
Health
You
People
World
Cancer
Care
Lose
Sick
Other
Enough
Other Countries
AIDS
Savings
Catastrophic
Countries
Like
Know
Health Care
Been
Get
Happens
Much
Works
Illness
Socialized
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra
You
Creative
Censorship
Down
Omission
Corporate
States
Through
Practise
Tightly
How
How Much
Controlled
Just
Realize
Much
Media
Here
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.
Jello Biafra
Art
Big
Energy
Starts
Spinning
Inspiration
Never
Head
New
Like
Ideas
New Ideas
Been
Big Fan
Brain
Gets
Fan
Subtle
Body
Full
Deep
Whole
I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
Jello Biafra
Time
Great
Voting
Down
Other
Booth
Totally
Had
Part
Over
Great Time
Equation
Insurrection
Years
Street
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
Jello Biafra
Music
You
Yourself
Punk
Made
Important
Important Things
Think
Back
Independent
Boring
Staying
Brought
Name
Category
Most
Concept
Doing
Lot
Any
The Most Important
Less
Whole
Things
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Jello Biafra
You
Drunk
Greed
Own
Believe
Once
Lies
Only
Involved
Get
Litigation
Your
Start
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.
Jello Biafra
Great
Disguise
Picture
Band
Gone
Flyers
Out
Photo
Promoters
Some
Winds
Fact
Ads
Up
Sending
Which
Length
Then
Even
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.
Jello Biafra
Me
Seen
Live
Dime
Out
Point
Put
Without
Permission
Were
Authorized
Endorse
Either
Them
Album
Don't hate the media, become the media.
Jello Biafra
Hate
Become
Media
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Jello Biafra
Time
Me
Before
Danger
Out
Running
Find
Per
Soon
Ideas
Documented
Deal
Five
Overwhelm
Get
Die
Cent
Anytime
Them
Hard
Lucky
Even
Riffs
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.
Jello Biafra
Culture
Passion
Danger
Ways
Born
Inspiration
Inspires
Almost
Also
Alternative
Lot
Any
Being
Moment
Set
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.
Jello Biafra
Good
Rights
Feelings
Civil
Civil Rights
About
He
Issues
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Cultural
Cultural Issues
Very
Labor
Jackson
Human
Jesse Jackson
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra
Ethics
Punk
Down
Grass
Punk Rock
Had
Contempt
Rock
Jury
Roots
Grass Roots
Right
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra
Alone
People
Argument
Situation
Other
Bosnia
Like
Wade
Kosovo
Hand
Left
Done
Stop
Depends
Places
Mean
Should
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.
Jello Biafra
Good
Women
People
Islam
Other
Indefensible
Respecting
Draw
Some
Well
Line
Cultures
Branches
Where
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
Jello Biafra
Work
Big
Before
Band
Angeles
Guy
Open
He
Sort
Big Band
Does
Arrangements
Passed
Least
Los
Los Angeles
Offer
Orchestra
Acquaintance
Les
Who
Away
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Jello Biafra
Music
Writing
Lyrics
Francisco
Songs
Until
San
San Francisco
Them
Turning
Really
Start
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
Jello Biafra
Black
Older
Wild
Born
Black Sabbath
Sabbath
Towards
Stuff
Always
Got
Then
Hard
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
Jello Biafra
Writing
Big
Style
Alice
Alice Cooper
Later
Through
Writing Style
Major
Major Influence
Disasters
Surgery
Influence
After
Which
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Cooper
Phase
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
Jello Biafra
Punk
Band
True
Major
Major Label
Contract
Label
Get
Last
Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
Jello Biafra
Saying
Me
Members
Dead
Disgusted
Former
Utterly
Start
Kennedys
What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra
You
People
Country
Half
Living
Other
Jobs
About
Could
Know
Hire
Spy
Get
Getting
Just
Want
Really
Helping
Serious
Street
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