Punk Quotes · Page 13

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

— Adam Oates

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

— Ad-Rock

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie…

— Carrie Brownstein

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Malcolm Mclaren

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

— Ian MacKaye

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing…

— Rei Kawakubo

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have…

— Justin Sane

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it -…

— Neneh Cherry

All the music we've done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it's…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains…

— Sonny Sandoval

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or…

— Langhorne Slim

One of the seminal moments I remember as a young punk is, when Roy Thomas was doing an editorial read-through of a…

— Chris Claremont

I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff…

— John Torode

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in…

— Fred Armisen

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

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

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music,…

— Bradford Cox

I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you…

— Moby

Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from…

— Douglas Pearce

When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of…

— Justin Theroux

It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It…

— Jim Jarmusch

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

— Henry Rollins

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much…

— Chris McCaughan

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

— Anna Sui

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard…

— Oscar Isaac

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

— Charlotte Caffey

The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you feel that you can truly be all of who you are.

— Brian Viglione

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

— Tim Heidecker

“I hope y'all haven't punk'd me or anything and you're actually calling me a wuss.”

— Heather Rainier

Coming off the back of the live album, there was a certain edginess and an almost punk energy that I've missed for…

— John Waite

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Steve Albini

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

— Vivienne Westwood