Punk Quotes

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

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.

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.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.

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.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

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

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

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!

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

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.

My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived.

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

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.

It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

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.