To Serve and Protect. . . "- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.
My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'. . . it's strong. It means you're able to go on.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.
I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.
First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.
War is just a racket. . . I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!
Once in the racket you're always in it.
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
If a 13 year old girl is pregnant, that is evidence of sexual abuse and that’s supposed to be reported to the authorities and these people are never doing it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the American abortion industry is running a pedophile protection racket and they’ve been doing it for years and they’re often getting federal tax dollars to run this thing.
What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.
