The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything. — Pedro Winter Copy Share Image
I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up… — Tim Mohr Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is… — Nina Blackwood Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock… — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different.… — David Vanian Copy Share Image
We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to… — Tobi Vail Copy Share Image
