"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I heard Skip James, and it pierced me. It felt like punk rock to me, real and raw. It was just one… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
What's really cool about 'This is Me' is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don't know 'The Greatest… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
Will Young. He's a great white soul singer. But he was slightly disappointing when I met him - not that friendly. Perhaps… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that… — Crystal Reed Copy Share Image
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
My favorite Shrapnel show happened one cold Christmas night when I was 16. It was a midnight show. Now if going to… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in… — Moby Copy Share Image
I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
“Actually a solution & a path to personal freedom. My own life's experience w/ both Dharma practice & punk rock inspired me… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
I think have my own style; no one has ever tried playback singing before. I might release a punk rock song that… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“Marriage felt like a fading American institution, as relevant to me as the Elks Club. Plus, I considered myself punk rock, and… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock,… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends.… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure… — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
“No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top… — Sofea Shah Copy Share Image
[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image