Rage Against The Machine Quotes

• 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

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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• It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Better Place

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• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Humorous, Ignorance, Profound

  "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Ignorance, Reign, Life Is

  "Song: Township Rebellion (Rage Against the Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Music, Two

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• 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

  Past

  "Song: Testify (Album:The Battle of Los Angeles)". 2000.

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• Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Crosses, Force

  "Song: Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine)". November 2, 1992.

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• The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

  Bill Maher

  Generations, Machines, Rage

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.114, Rodale

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• A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

  Tom Morello

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

  Tom Morello

  Clueless, Band, Machines

  "Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'" by Tom Morello, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 2012.

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• The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Lasts, Rooms, Classroom

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• 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

  War, Law, White

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• Is all the world jails and churches?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Jail, Church, World

  "Song: Vietnow (Evil Empire)". October 1997.

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• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  Fred Durst

  Sound, Phrases, Machines

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• They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Book, Ems, Remove

  "Song: Bulls on Parade (Album: Evil Empire)". 1996.

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• I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.

  Ice Cube

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting,
  My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine.
  Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

  Chino XL

  Dream, Hate, Rap

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• Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

  Henry Rollins

  Player, Guitar, Fans

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• I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them.

  Renzo Rosso

  Fashion, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

  Lee DeWyze

  Machines, Rage

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