Ministry Quotes

“grabbed handfuls of carrots, celery, and rolled-up ham. Then I dropped my pants and shoved all this stuff up my ass. I looked like a fucking peacock. I must have had a twelve-inch plume of deli tray food coming out of my ass. I turned around and charged at them backward. That’s called a flying ham sandwich—you shove food up your ass and charge somebody. They”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

“If you spend too much time looking behind you, obsessing over your rearview mirror, you’ll miss the flood of hazardous oncoming traffic.”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

“I and other musicians with some clout have got to coordinate our shit to fuck these people over because they are going to lead to the demise of our society and culture. They’re like book burners or prohibitionists. They want to ease us into complacency and then brainwash us with shows like NCIS and songs like “Gangnam Style.” They are hideous and dangerous, and they control Hollywood, the TV networks, and the music business. And of course, greed motivates everything they do, because if everyone around them is stumbling around like a bunch of brain-dead creatures, they can keep feeding us this shit, which destroys our individuality and creativity while they shovel up the piles of cash that we throw at them, and that appears to be the price of mass-lobotomization.”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

“left to navigate the treacherous stairs of the Ritz and have a moment of peace. I get to my dressing room, and there are these three wankers with mullets drinking my beer. I said, “How did you get down here?” and they said, “We’re Metallica.” And then they turned away from me. I said, “Okay, this is my dressing room. Why are you still here? Scramtallica.” They told me to fuck off, which was the wrong thing to do. I grabbed my deli tray, looked at these arrogant fuckers, and”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

“When we used to play “Stigmata” I would leave halfway through the song so I could get down to the dressing room and have a nice quiet drink by myself while the band was still playing onstage. That night I finished my vocal parts, slammed the mic down on the ground, and”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen