Punk Quotes - page 3

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. (Greg Ginn)
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. View quote
Gavin Rossdale
I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere! View quote
Iwan Rheon
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square. View quote
Justin Sane
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17. View quote
Kreayshawn
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point. View quote
Matthew Shipp
People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. View quote
Nadia Giosia
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. View quote
Siouxsie Sioux
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. View quote
Stanley Crouch
GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together. (Steven Adler)
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican. View quote
Trey Parker
I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. View quote
Yann Tiersen
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends. View quote
Winona Ryder
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. View quote
Moby
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
If one of you should detect any dissatisfaction or unsettled feeling within your (the governors') jurisdiction, you should take immediate and concrete steps for the complete removal of these elements ... Now the people of our nation must endure our little punk of an emperor and their inconveniences and overcome painful hardships in order to win this war. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
"Punk fusion"... "metal", "alternative"... "grindcore". What the hell is all that stuff? (Josh Homme)
It was my first time away from home, my first experience in an all-black situation, and I found myself being punished for everything I'd ever been taught was right. I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk. I had to learn a new language simply to deal with the threats. I had good manners, and was a good little boy and paid for it with my hide. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. View quote
Iggy Pop
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. View quote
William Gibson
The Squares [his former band] never really fit in. We weren't rock enough. We weren't alternative enough. We weren't new wave enough and we weren't punk enough. Maybe we just weren't the right people for the band. View quote
Joe Satriani