I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
“Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P.… — Tony Palermo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more… — Sami Zayn Copy Share Image
My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don't listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me,… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to… — Seth Copy Share Image
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to… — Steven Blush Copy Share Image
As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
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