There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
For all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for 'Radioactive,' I felt like… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like… — Grimes Copy Share Image
All punk music is is rebellion, going against the grain. It takes different forms. Sometimes it's a band throwing their instruments around… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I can say is our point of reference - and I think that does make us different from some bands and similar… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n'… — El-P Copy Share Image
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk… — Moby Copy Share Image
What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock… — David Vanian Copy Share Image
“The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say ‘George Bush is fucking awesome’ instead of talking about how… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards… — Taylor Steele Copy Share Image
I was very confused in the beginning about my red carpet appearances and wanted to try every look, be it grungy, girly,… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the… — Boy George Copy Share Image
For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
People find it hard to place me. I'm doing pop, but I'm this weird quirky Dane that used to be in a… — MO Copy Share Image
Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image