Punk Quotes · Page 14

“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

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

— JPEGMAFIA

“The two most obvious English mutations to have occurred in America in the last decade go by the names "punk" and "skinhead.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my…

— William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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

When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt…

— Feist

“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

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

— Rachel Caine

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

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

— David First

My father wanted the high school diploma on the wall, so I got that and then started hanging out in New York…

— Marky Ramone

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