Punk Quotes · Page 16

Punk rock is being honest, believing in yourself and doing what you gotta do. That's all.

— Marky Ramone

From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.

— Bill Goldberg

I felt more and more like I was putting on an act - like I was being shoved into this role of…

— Laura Jane Grace

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

— John K. Samson

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

— Russell Howard

“Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process.”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

— Bjork

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

— Tre Cool

Punk's really cool because it's very inclusive of all types, which I like. And I would submit that even though people talk…

— Milo Aukerman

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or…

— Chris Cornell

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives…

— Jacob Bannon

It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had…

— John Roecker

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk…

— Jack White

Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for…

— Belinda Carlisle

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one…

— Debbie Harry

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and…

— Gary Numan

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate…

— Jello Biafra

My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was…

— Jeff Vespa

When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows…

— Kevin Morby

We're getting bombarded by the most polarizing reactions. As much as the punk in me likes it, I'm really surprised by the…

— Alan Sparhawk

You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is…

— Samoa Joe

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of…

— Chuck D

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those…

— Dean Wareham

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels!…

— Beth Ditto

As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more…

— MO

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best…

— Hunx

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

— Eric Andre

I would want to fight in the UFC or Bellator. Why CM Punk? Anyone, just a worthy adversary. It can't be a…

— Logan Paul

By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work…

— John Cooper Clarke

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

— Greg Graffin

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

— Joe Trohman

“So punk wasn’t about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.”

— Legs McNeil

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

— Toyah Willcox

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

— Gary Crowley

I always joke that I need to keep the Vandals in my back pocket for punk rock cred while I work with…

— Josh Freese

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as…

— Billy Idol

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn