Punk Quotes - page 2

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. (Billy Bragg)

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Rob Sheffield

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Sue Townsend

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Gus Van Sant

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

James Patterson

During my punk phase in the nineties, I was really into Nirvana. My wardrobe consisted of ripped corduroy jeans and flannel shirts. One day after school, I dyed my hair blue. Mom wasn't a fan of this decision.

Ivanka Trump

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

Travis Barker

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Travis Barker

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Travis Barker

I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work. (Milo Ventimiglia)

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

Jonny Greenwood

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Joey Ramone

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Joey Ramone

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Amy Ray

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Arto Lindsay

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

Adam Oates

Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

Beth Ditto

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Benjamin Booker

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out. (Clea DuVall)

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Dexter Holland

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Gerald Caiafa

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Greg Ginn

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

Greg Ginn

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