Punk Quotes · Page 14

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

CM Punk was a great wrestler, and he has so many fans and made a lot of people happy with what he…

— Sage Northcutt

I think I would destroy CM Punk if I'm being honest. I don't know if anyone would disagree with that.

— Logan Paul

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

— Siobhan Fahey

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

— Martin Popoff

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

— Chuck Mosley

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that.…

— Glenn Branca

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

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better…

— Iggy Pop

I love Bach cello suites, I love punk music, I love old blues, negro spiritual quartets, Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love.' There…

— Van Hunt

I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a…

— Benjamin Booker

Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only…

— Lou Barlow

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The…

— Barack Obama

Like I said before in my earlier interviews when I was just starting, I'm not a CM Punk. Like, I'm not here…

— Greg Hardy

I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all…

— Janet Evanovich

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger…

— Nicolas Cage

I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about…

— William Gibson

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is…

— Timothy Leary

It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever…

— Guy Maddin

Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to…

— Fred Armisen

I think we all feel incredibly fortunate and grateful that we're still around. We're one of the last punk-rock bands standing. And,…

— John Doe

My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that…

— Crystal Reed

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

— Dexter Holland

The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.

— Frank Mir

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me…

— Kreayshawn

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

— Bob Dylan

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

— Finn Wolfhard

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

— Kate Nash

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

— Steve Aoki

I was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.

— Blackbear

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

— David Pajo

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

— John Grant

Trust me - he will be back. I promise you, at some point CM Punk will be back involved in wrestling.

— Sean Waltman

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

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

— Reggie Watts

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't…

— Lemmy

It's like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can't complain like, 'Hey, the punk…

— Dave Portnoy

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco