You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'
People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
People. . . of the universe! Tonight. . . is the night. . when the skies will open, and spray forth a divine hand with pointed finger! And it will say. . . everybody. . . you're not just a duck. . . YOU ARE HUMAN! YOU ARE HUMAAAAN!!!
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.
The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.