Punk Quotes

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

— Mike D

I love '90s grunge and punk.

— Alice Dellal

“I am an old punk.”

— Dee Dee Ramone

Punk was a very liberating force.

— Jim Kerr

MySpace was so punk.

— Kate Nash

C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

— Jeff Hardy

Punk inspired me.

— Viv Albertine

“Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.”

— Gayle Forman

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

— Wade Barrett

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

— Trey Parker

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

— Troy Duffy

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

— Kate Bush

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

— Chris Cornell

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

— Joey Ramone

I hated everything but punk for a long time.

— Harry Enfield

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

— Sharon Needles

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

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

— Frank Turner

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

— Kenny Beats

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the…

— Bjork

I didn't really feel like a girly girl. I didn't want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then…

— Kathy Burke

Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they…

— John Hurt

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk…

— Ville Valo

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of…

— James Surowiecki

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you…

— Richard Linklater

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even…

— Kim Gordon

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As…

— Kurt Cobain

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority…

— Greg Graffin

We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics…

— John Updike

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of…

— Langhorne Slim

Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me.…

— Tad Kubler

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're…

— Stuart Scott

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and…

— Princess Nokia

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a…

— Vivienne Westwood

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

— Laura Benanti