Punk Quotes · Page 8

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

— Matt Skiba

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

— Charli XCX

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

— Vivienne Westwood

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

— CM Punk

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

— Adam Ant

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

— David Pajo

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

— Gary Crowley

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

— Travis Barker

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

— Josh Freese

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

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

— Moby

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

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary.…

— Nadia Giosia

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me…

— John Hiatt

“[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he…

— John le Carré

Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock…

— Sonny Sandoval

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure…

— David Byrne

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young.…

— Sharon Needles

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was…

— Jon Taffer

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk…

— Paul Heyman

I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's…

— Meghan McCain

Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk…

— Torquil Campbell

“Punk has been portrayed as music by and for angry white males, but in its inception, it was a rebellion against all…

— Alice Bag

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of…

— Langhorne Slim

We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics…

— John Updike

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and…

— Princess Nokia

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a…

— Vivienne Westwood

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

— Sharon Needles

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go…

— Frank Turner

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

— Kenny Beats

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the…

— Bjork