Punk Quotes · Page 16

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had…

— Cat Power

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

— Charlotte Caffey

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla -…

— Vivienne Westwood

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

“Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?”

— Gerard Way

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 I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it…

— Moby

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up…

— Kurt Cobain

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more…

— Jack Antonoff

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave…

— Richard Coles

When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I…

— Ashley Benson

You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is…

— Samoa Joe

We're getting bombarded by the most polarizing reactions. As much as the punk in me likes it, I'm really surprised by the…

— Alan Sparhawk

When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows…

— Kevin Morby

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate…

— Jello Biafra

My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was…

— Jeff Vespa

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the…

— Eyvind Kang

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking…

— John Waters

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that…

— Jay Michaelson

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do…

— Sade Adu

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

— Anna Sui

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

— Lady Gaga

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,

— Pete Wentz

“To feeling no shame in fear, no doubt in survival, and no silence in anger.”

— Cristy C. Road

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

— Jello Biafra

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

— Laura Jane Grace

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

— Caitlin Moran

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

— Keith Flint

Being a guy with tattoos, 38 years old and thought of as a punk rocker, to end up on Nickelodeon is kind…

— Steve Harwell

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

— Etta James

You might not think that, because I have so many of them, but I'm an absolute punk when it comes to tattoos.

— Paul Wall

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

— Sade Adu

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

— Michael Stipe

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey