Punk Quotes

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.

I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.

If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.