Punk Quotes · Page 9

We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's…

— Matt Skiba

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm…

— Agnes Varda

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair…

— Noomi Rapace

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

— Dennis Miller

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

— Kim Shattuck

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

— Norman Reedus

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

— Toyah Willcox

The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about…

— Katherine Losse

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture…

— Kim Gordon

The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and…

— Frank Iero

I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought…

— Flume

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock,…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Push yourself to the limits, and you'll be John Cena, you'll be C.M. Punk, instead of complaining about other people that have…

— Goldust

“I hear a phone ringing through the thick fuzzy air. It's Thunders, asking me to join the Heartbreakers. He says to come…

— Viv Albertine

I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me…

— Zach Braff

I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I…

— Frankie Cosmos

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised…

— CM Punk

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are…

— Kelela

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to…

— Dexter Holland

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

— Trey Parker

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you…

— John Lydon

Claire - "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" Eve - "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of…

— Rachel Caine

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

— Tony Palermo

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

— Chuck Berry

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

— George Thorogood

I was not a fan of the Clash or, for that matter, any other punk band that existed.

— Glyn Johns

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

— Belinda Carlisle

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

— Gavin Rossdale

I've been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music…

— Shavo Odadjian

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.

— Sasha Spielberg

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t…

— Nate Ruess

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

— Yung Lean