Punk Quotes

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

— Mike D

I love '90s grunge and punk.

— Alice Dellal

Punk was a very liberating force.

— Jim Kerr

I'm a tomboy, and my style is punk.

— CL

MySpace was so punk.

— Kate Nash

C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

— Jeff Hardy

“Jazz je punk pro staré lidi.”

— Gayle Forman

Don't punk out and don't quit.

— Ben Horowitz

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

— Wade Barrett

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

— Trey Parker

I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

— Troy Duffy

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

— Kate Bush

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

— Trevor Dunn

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

— Neko Case

Hunx is kind of just, like, a really trashy punk band, honestly.

— Hunx

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought…

— Shannon Purser

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

— Ice Cube

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical…

— Steve Winwood

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

— Hank Williams III

“Tell me sir if you will, where in the Bible does it state that it’s ok to judge others based purely on…

— Sofea Shah

Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something…

— CM Punk

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really…

— Marc Webb

I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords…

— Ezra Furman

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.…

— Chuck Klosterman

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's.…

— Penelope Spheeris

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context.…

— Billy Corgan

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it…

— Rick Rubin

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a…

— Iggy Pop

I can say is our point of reference - and I think that does make us different from some bands and similar…

— Theresa Wayman

“Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached…

— Nina Jean Slack

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 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

Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me.…

— Tad Kubler

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

— Laura Benanti