Punk Quotes

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

My name's Punk. CM Punk.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

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

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

He was a boy, she was a girl, Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet, What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell, But secretly she wanted him as well.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

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.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you feel that you can truly be all of who you are.

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.