Punk Quotes

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Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

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

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

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.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

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.

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.

It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

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

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

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

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.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

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.

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.

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.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

I'm not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don't look like CM Punk when I'm not in my gear.

It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

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.

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

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.