“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool”
Plato
“Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once silent, grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious theatrocracy…the criterion was not music, but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking.”
Plato
“Rock music is sex and you have to hit them [teenagers] in the face with it”
Andrew Oldham
„Today’s Satanic bands are the vehicle of choice for millions of young people. If they encourage a study of real Satanism, I’m all for them. Now, there are many influential groups who know Satanism and aren’t afraid to espouse it—bands like King Diamond, The Electric Hellfire Club, Acheron, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails—the list is long. I have no use for the bands who take the Devil’s name, but are too chickenshit to play the Devil’s game. They’re usually too stupid to present any argument concerning Satanism. Instead, when put to the question, they cop out by answering: “Yeah—I was into that shit but not now. Don’t ask me about it because there’s no point in talking about it.” There are Satanic bands and there are “Satanic” bands.“
Anton Szandor LaVey
“Our music is intended to broaden the generation gap and alienate children from their parents.”
Jefferson Starship
“As a country artist, I’m not proud of a lot of the things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decline in America”
Conway Twitty
“Rock concerts are the churches of today. Music puts them on a spiritual plane. All music is God”
Craig Clinton Chaquico
“I don’t know if anyone has really understood what we’re trying to do . . . to lure people in. Once we’ve got ’em we can give ’em our message.”
Marilyn Manson
“It made people feel profane. All those things they were saying about rock and roll, it’s going to subvert our youth, it’s going to make them to want to have sex, it will make them crazy, they were right.”
Billy Joel