Punk Quotes · Page 19

“...raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack...”

— Elizabeth George

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

— Kim Gordon

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

— Richard Herring

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

— Gina Schock

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the…

— Ezra Furman

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

— Kate Nash

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

— CM Punk

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in…

— Wendy O. Williams

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a…

— Dennis Miller

I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I…

— Alison Moyet

I'm from the punk generation, but I make romantic, soft soul music. I like the bizarre disconnect of that but, clearly, some…

— Mick Hucknall

I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts…

— Kaya Scodelario

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in…

— Moby

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every…

— Dannii Minogue

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions…

— Charles Bukowski

“If the early English and LA punk bands shared a common sound, the New York bands just shared the same clubs. As…

— Clinton Heylin

I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's…

— Lisa Gerrard

I think we're at the end of all the revivals. People would forget about punk for a while, and then a magazine…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

In the beginning, in 1991, we opened for the likes of Naughty By Nature and Ice Cube, but developed a reputation for…

— B-Real

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got…

— Julie Powell

With Punk, I consider him to be like a brother to me. He's one of the guys who took me under his…

— Kofi Kingston

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of…

— Abbie Hoffman

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this…

— Clint Eastwood

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam…

— Cherie Currie

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

— Angelina Jolie

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How…

— Roseanne Barr

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade.

— Noel Fielding

I only work with the real Punk, like the CM Punk or the Chance the Rapper.

— The Iron Sheik

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

— Rob Sheffield

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

— Pedro Winter

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

— Jello Biafra

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

— Amy Dumas

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

— Steve Winwood

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

— Robert Downey, Jr

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

— John Lydon

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial…

— Shepard Fairey

“never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.”

— Exene Cervenka

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

— Madonna Ciccone