Punk Quotes

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

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.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

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.

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

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.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

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.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.

I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

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

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

This isn't CM Punk talking to Triple H, this is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.