Punk Quotes · Page 13

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

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

— Pedro Winter

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

“In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.”

— Kate Rockland

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a…

— Nick Rhodes

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then…

— Rick Rubin

Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every…

— Greg Graffin

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy…

— Hayley Williams

I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a…

— Nicolas Cage

I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see…

— Paul Young

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands,…

— Penelope Spheeris

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

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

“The day Flag went on tour forever we set the loading dock on fire. It was a special kind of concrete that…

— Noah Wareness

Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you…

— Novala Takemoto

For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people…

— Beth Ditto

“Mostly because I’ve realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn’t like…

— Karin Tidbeck

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've…

— Oscar Isaac

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to…

— Motorhead

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

— Andy Dunn

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything…

— Vivienne Westwood

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

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

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

— Sasha Spielberg

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

— Glyn Johns

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

— Gavin Rossdale

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

— Belinda Carlisle

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 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

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

— Rachel Caine