Punk Quotes · Page 15

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

— Boy George

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

— Eugene Mirman

“These punk anarchist peoples de most honest an’ authentic peoples in de whole world!”

— Jonathan Shaw

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

— Rachel Vincent

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

— John Cooper Clarke

“thought I was done with you punk? Not by a long shot. You and me are welded together at the soul.”

— John Hunt

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

— Angelina Jolie

Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's…

— Chad Gilbert

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that…

— Bruce Sterling

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an…

— Laura Jane Grace

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands.…

— Cassie Steele

I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had…

— Robert Trujillo

There is something encouraging about the rebellious spirit of the Internet. It's like the modern equivalent of punk - anyone can make…

— Ron Mael

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for…

— Eef Barzelay

I admire plenty of people, I admire Daniel Bryan, I admire CM Punk, I admire Antonio Cesaro, Wade Barrett, Sheamus; all the…

— William Regal

Will Young. He's a great white soul singer. But he was slightly disappointing when I met him - not that friendly. Perhaps…

— Tony Blackburn

I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't…

— Greg Graffin

I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I…

— Rozz Williams

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school…

— Pete Doherty

If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to…

— Motorhead

My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human…

— Jello Biafra

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've…

— Oscar Isaac

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

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

— James Murphy

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

— Ben Hopkins

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

— Clea DuVall

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then…

— Andre Agassi

You can mix and match, depending on your own mood, whether you want your look of the day to be casual, cool,…

— Liu Wen

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

— Lester Bangs

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Punk's not a good dude, I can't care what he says. Of course he's going to talk trash when I'm not there.

— Eddie Kingston

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

— Robert Quine

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

— Kurt Cobain

It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk,…

— Zach Braff

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

— Susanna Hoffs

There's certain people in wrestling I do not like. Punk is one. Cesaro is another one, the big Swiss idiot in WWE.

— Eddie Kingston

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

— Malcolm Mclaren

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

— Lou Barlow