Punk Quotes - page 10

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid. (Tom Jones)
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial. View quote
Iggy Pop
When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift. View quote
Iggy Pop
I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing. View quote
Tiësto
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out. View quote
Dannii Minogue
I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing. View quote
Sade Adu
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. View quote
Hayley Williams
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. View quote
Morrissey
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. View quote
Gerard Way
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. (Eddie Vedder)
When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada. View quote
Leslie Feist
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience. View quote
Cat Power
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. View quote
Ani DiFranco
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. View quote
Kim Gordon
I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me. View quote
Ville Valo
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger. View quote
Eddie Van Halen
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. View quote
Jack White
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. View quote
Jack White
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic. View quote
Corey Taylor
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. (Tom Morello)
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. View quote
Avril Lavigne
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again. View quote
Denis Leary
Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. View quote
Marc Jacobs
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework. View quote
Patrick Stump