Punk Quotes · Page 7

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

— Joey Ramone

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 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

When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where…

— Alissa White-Gluz

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took…

— Paul Simonon

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then…

— Rick Rubin

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all…

— Nicolas Cage

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands,…

— Penelope Spheeris

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy…

— Hayley Williams

It's a dying art to play live anymore and just play raw. Who cares if you make a mistake? That's punk rock.…

— Sonny Sandoval

A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon,…

— Kelela

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four…

— Kate Nash

What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that,…

— Geoff Rickly

The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock…

— John Porcellino

When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking.…

— Bradford Cox

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -…

— Laura Owens

The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

"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 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 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

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

— Siobhan Fahey

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland

I think I would destroy CM Punk if I'm being honest. I don't know if anyone would disagree with that.

— Logan Paul

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

CM Punk was a great wrestler, and he has so many fans and made a lot of people happy with what he…

— Sage Northcutt

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

— Yann Tiersen

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

— Bob Dylan

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

— Steve Aoki