Punk Quotes · Page 19

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

Fuckin punk you aint leader what, nobody followed you your never shit your mother shoulda swollowed you.

— Big L

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s…

— Jessica Pare

All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not…

— Chad Gilbert

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of…

— Lance Loud

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

— Rhys Ifans

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened.…

— Panos Cosmatos

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language…

— Gruff Rhys

I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the…

— John Carter Cash

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get…

— Chad Gilbert

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm…

— CM Punk

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and…

— Gary Numan

I did enjoy the broadcasting work of King, Punk and Josh Mathews last Monday on Raw. Josh is a hard working young…

— Jim Ross

People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new…

— Paul Young

With Punk, I consider him to be like a brother to me. He's one of the guys who took me under his…

— Kofi Kingston

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of…

— Abbie Hoffman

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this…

— Clint Eastwood

Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the…

— G.W. Sok

To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for…

— John Vanderslice

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we…

— James Caan

From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I…

— G.W. Sok

While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter…

— David Mixner

“never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.”

— Exene Cervenka

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

— Greg Ginn

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

— Madonna Ciccone

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

— Nigel Barker

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in…

— Su-chin Pak

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.

— Synyster Gates

CM Punk clearly established during his time as a Paul Heyman Guy that he was, as the billing suggested, The Best In…

— Paul Heyman

“So I was a punk out of frustration. But I became a Tory out of hope.”

— Niall Ferguson

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade.

— Noel Fielding

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How…

— Roseanne Barr

I only work with the real Punk, like the CM Punk or the Chance the Rapper.

— The Iron Sheik

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam…

— Cherie Currie

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

— Angelina Jolie

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

— Rob Sheffield