Punk rock Quotes · Page 4

“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.”

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Malcolm Mclaren

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

— Boy George

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

— Angelina Jolie

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

— James Murphy

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

— Pete Wentz

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

— Lady Gaga

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

— Michael Stipe

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock…

— Michael Stipe

Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot…

— CM Punk

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in…

— Jim Goad

I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s…

— Michael Gira

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts,…

— Iggy Pop

The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were…

— Todd Rundgren

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan.…

— George Thorogood

I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing…

— Chris Cubas

I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's…

— Meghan McCain

My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just…

— Pat Smear

I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end…

— Cristian Machado

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to…

— Kathleen Hanna

People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had…

— Jennifer Egan

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me…

— John Hiatt

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was…

— Michael Stipe

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played…

— Moby

“You know how they say Black Flag got in a van, and they brought punk rock to the world? The Strokes got…

— Lizzy Goodman

It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where…

— Memory Tapes

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

Me gusta el reggae, me gusta punk rock, pero la cosa que me gusta mas es panochinta.

— Brad Nowell

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Mike Watt

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

— Henry Rollins

“I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen”

— Nessie Strange

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

— Fantastic Negrito

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

— Jello Biafra

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.

— Gavin McInnes

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

— Jonathan Evison

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

— Norman Reedus

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

— Trey Parker

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

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

— Chuck Berry