Punk Quotes · Page 17

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

— Moby

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

— Gary Crowley

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

I always joke that I need to keep the Vandals in my back pocket for punk rock cred while I work with…

— Josh Freese

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as…

— Billy Idol

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a…

— Dennis Miller

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in…

— Wendy O. Williams

I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I…

— Alison Moyet

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the…

— Boy George

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every…

— Dannii Minogue

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions…

— Charles Bukowski

I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts…

— Kaya Scodelario

I'm from the punk generation, but I make romantic, soft soul music. I like the bizarre disconnect of that but, clearly, some…

— Mick Hucknall

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way…

— Vivienne Westwood

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…

— Michael Azerrad

Woody Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "ooh at ooh at ooh…

— Reed Mullin

So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and…

— Gena Showalter

“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad…

— Anthony Burgess

I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that…

— Mark Lanegan

Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual…

— David Longstreth

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those…

— Dean Wareham

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

— Princess Nokia

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

— Trevor Dunn

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

— Fred Armisen

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

— Danger Mouse

Guys are going to talk. We're going to respond... they aren't going to punk us. Not me. They're not going to punk…

— Tristan Thompson

We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.

— Calum Hood

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

— Martin Popoff

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

— Jello Biafra

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the…

— Bjork

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

— Sharon Needles

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

— Kenny Beats

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go…

— Frank Turner

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams