Punk Quotes

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.

If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!"

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness."

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.