Mike Watt Quotes

the Rolling Stones will always be the Beatles’ superiors—because they played.

I never gave a damn about the meter man, till I was the man, who had to read the meters, man.

William Blake is dreaming of Jerusalem under that sod, and Daniel Defoe is probably dreaming about something a fair bit earthier. You’ve also got John Owen and Isaac Watts, the reservoir dogs of eighteenth-century theology. What can I tell you? I just feel at ease in their company.

Tear up your dictionaries!

We don't need no badges

It's easier running in packs

outline procedures and slip into routine and move in a sequence maintain at a distance keep your body rigid and fit in your slots

A measured distance between centuries issues you your number.

You can't disco in jackboots

sometimes the news is like a loud hum in my amplifier it wrings my head out like a filthy washcloth

...and I want to take a swim, get wet with real water.

industry, industry, we're tools for the industry - your clothes in their laundry, bleached of identity.

pack a chunk of the sun, glue it to your heart - hold on!

the tin roof the paper maché too many liars are singing songs

chasing the reasons refusing to reason by listing the reasons

we are cuss words near illiterate dedicated to fighting toadies

i live sweat but i dream light years

machines disregard my pronouns

describing what it's like describing believing that the sum is "yes

my body my mind the idea of my life seems like a symbol