Punk Quotes · Page 10

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

— Charlotte Caffey

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie…

— Carrie Brownstein

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

— Malcolm Mclaren

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

— Ad-Rock

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

— Adam Oates

Coming off the back of the live album, there was a certain edginess and an almost punk energy that I've missed for…

— John Waite

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just…

— Pat Smear

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is…

— Nina Blackwood

We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our…

— Mike McCready

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,…

— Dean Wareham

DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk…

— Thurston Moore

I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a…

— Laura Jane Grace

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock…

— Ketch Secor

“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up…

— Tim Mohr

When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our…

— Chad Gilbert

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

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

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

— Henry Rollins

All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a…

— Skepta

I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and…

— Caitlin Rose

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country…

— Sturgill Simpson

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally…

— Steve Albini

The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you feel that you can truly be all of who you are.

— Brian Viglione

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard…

— Oscar Isaac

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

— Charlotte Caffey

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

— Siobhan Fahey

I think I would destroy CM Punk if I'm being honest. I don't know if anyone would disagree with that.

— Logan Paul

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

CM Punk was a great wrestler, and he has so many fans and made a lot of people happy with what he…

— Sage Northcutt

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts