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"People often ask me, "Jack, youre old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"
"What do you think makes a good rock front man? Shamelessness, I’d imagine."

Peter Ventantonio, known professionally as Jack Terricloth, was an American musician and guitarist, the lead singer of the cabaret-punk band the World/Inferno Friendship Society and guitarist and vocalist of Sticks and Stones. He died on May 12, 2021, in his Ridgewood, Queens, apartment due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
"People often ask me, "Jack, youre old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"
"My older friends say, "I was in a punk band once, and we used to be pretty outraged. We would get pretty angry, wed get a stomp going or something, we would rally against Reagan, or other elected officials. But now I am an older man, and I have some responsibilities, so I really cannot be excited. I appreciate Kurt Cobain, and Im excited about all those bands that seem very angry, but—why would you keep doing this after all these years?" And I say, "Because I still hate you and Im trying to prove to you that youre wrong." Because, really, if youre bored and youre listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy."
"Theres a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? Id like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz."
"Interviewer says "Yeah, and I watched that but I actually was kind of like, terrified by the intensity of your fans and I was wondering if the intensity of your fans ever kind of scares you? I hear that they have a bunch of rules for what dances to do during certain songs…I was like ‘Oh God’."
"It was great the way we changed the mind of the nation and fascism was defeated and all the troops were home by Christmas."
"What better place than this? What better choice than us?"
"How seldom, Friend! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth, with all his worth and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.   . For shame, dear Friend! renounce this canting strain! … Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, and , And , regular as infants breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, , his , and the Angel ."
"He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it."
"Shamino: (when the player clicks repeatedly on a cat) Bloody cats!"
"A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather, Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together. Science announced nonentity and art admired decay; The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay; Round us in antic order their crippled vices came — Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame."
"And then it happened. Suddenly, shamelessly, and without warning, as it must in all musical comedies, they were struck by... a love song."
"Prisoner in Castle British dungeon: "Shamino, speak up man!"