Punk Quotes · Page 12

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how…

— John Lydon

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

— Simon Cowell

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I…

— Joey Ramone

I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.

— Van Hunt

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me…

— Dorian Yates

“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.”

— William S. Burroughs

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

— Killer Mike

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

— Matt Besser

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk…

— Fred Tomaselli

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority…

— Greg Graffin

Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary…

— Bruce Pavitt

Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making…

— Hunx

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But,…

— Tom DeLonge

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop…

— Beth Ditto

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took…

— Paul Simonon

When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where…

— Alissa White-Gluz

I had to cook when I left my parents' house at 18. I was hanging out in the punk scene, and didn't…

— Marky Ramone

I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a…

— Skrillex

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be…

— Clint Eastwood

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys,…

— Andy Biersack

I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like…

— Mark Coleman

One minute I'm the punk rock tattooed guy who had 'Walkin' on the Sun' and all these other songs , and then…

— Steve Harwell

When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to…

— Greg Graffin

One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me…

— Ian MacKaye

I like the way punk people perform better than rappers, because rappers suck at performing - no offense.

— Denzel Curry

I just find social media such a robotic experience, whereas punk was right in your face.

— Toyah Willcox

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

— Michael Caputo

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

— Henry Rollins

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

— Mike Dirnt

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

— Kurt Cobain

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

— Toyah Willcox

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

“I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.”

— Magenta Periwinkle

Before I knew what hip-hop was, I listened to rock, metal, punk, reggae and old soul. I loved Black Sabbath.

— B-Real

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

— Andy Greenwald

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to…

— Brian Johnson

I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

— Steve Aoki

Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness."

— Rachel Caine

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

— Damon Albarn

You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it.…

— Paul Rodgers