De La Rocha Quotes & Sayings

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. — Zack De La Rocha

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame. — Zack De La Rocha

The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy. — Joseph Conrad

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses. — Zack De La Rocha

T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past. — Michel De Montaigne

A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals. — Zack De La Rocha

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition. — Zack De La Rocha

When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going. — Spencer Boldman

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law. — Zack De La Rocha

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em — Zack De La Rocha

I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit loud. Really belt out the "Should have been somebody eeeeeelse" part, with a little bit of Zack de la Rocha venom. That would be pretty awesome right about now.

But the other part of me, the part that wanted to be cool, knew that it was a much better idea to say, "Let's play the fucking Misfits." Because that's what you say to the cool guy in the combat boots who wants to smoke in your house. Because he's going to snarl-smile at you and say, "Fuck yeah!" And you're feel cool by association.

"Let's play the fucking Misfits," I said.

John snarl-smiled and saluted me with rock horns. "Fuck yeah."

Told you. — Eric Spitznagel

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. — Maurice Gibb

Your anger is a gift. — Zack De La Rocha

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. — Jane Smiley

Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now? — Zack De La Rocha

Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need. — Zack De La Rocha

Is all the world jails and churches? — Zack De La Rocha

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now? — Zack De La Rocha

It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States. — Zack De La Rocha

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. — Zack De La Rocha

Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war ... — Zack De La Rocha

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. — Zack De La Rocha

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em — Zack De La Rocha

The classroom's the last room to get the truth. — Zack De La Rocha

Fools follow rules when the set commands you. — Zack De La Rocha

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do. — Zack De La Rocha

See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!"
"Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either! — Rachel Caine

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. — John Williams

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death. — Zack De La Rocha

What I'm trying to say, Brooke Overland, is that I want to be your nanny."
That's seriously the most romantic thing I've ever heard in my life. — C.M. Stunich

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face. — Zack De La Rocha

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack De La Rocha

I already know the words. I just need to learn the beat. This tone-deaf white girl will try to make music out of recovery. — Rachel Cohn

One God, one market, one truth, one consumer — Zack De La Rocha

When ignorance reigns, life is lost — Zack De La Rocha

My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I love them. — Louisa May Alcott

Riches make cowards of us ... — Margaret Ayer Barnes