Punk Quotes · Page 18

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical…

— Steve Winwood

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

— Hank Williams III

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

— Robert Englund

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought…

— Shannon Purser

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in…

— Moby

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in…

— Buzz Osborne

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop…

— Milo Aukerman

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just…

— Jarvis Cocker

I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I…

— Ezra Furman

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back…

— James Marsters

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control…

— Gary Numan

“Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture:…

— Stefan Molyneux

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels!…

— Beth Ditto

Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history -…

— David First

"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

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

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got…

— Julie Powell

When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our…

— Chad Gilbert

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

— Ice Cube

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb…

— Howie Klein

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

— Nick Hornby

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about…

— Geoff Rickly

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us…

— Joe Strummer

“...raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack...”

— Elizabeth George

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

— Kim Gordon

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

— Gina Schock

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

— Richard Herring

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

— CM Punk

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

— Kate Nash

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the…

— Ezra Furman

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

I don't get why people get involved and start picking sides in something that doesn't involve them to begin with.

— Anonymous

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

— Billy Bragg

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone