Punk Rock Quotes

Punk Rock Quote of the day

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

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.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Being in love is totally punk rock.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

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.

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.