Punk Quotes · Page 8

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

— Charli XCX

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

— Vivienne Westwood

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

— CM Punk

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

— Phil Elverum

I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable…

— Troian Bellisario

“So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?”

— Jenny Han

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

— Anthony Kiedis

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought…

— Shannon Purser

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

— Ice Cube

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is…

— Travis Barker

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued…

— Greg Graffin

Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot…

— CM Punk

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic…

— Vivienne Westwood

Somebody like CM Punk, who stands up and says he's completely sober - he doesn't even take a drink of champagne in…

— Rob Van Dam

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music…

— Avicii

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how…

— Boy George

Hit a punk in the back with a pump in the back, till he's off balance. And I'm back in the front…

— Kendrick Lamar

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a…

— Iggy Pop

I can say is our point of reference - and I think that does make us different from some bands and similar…

— Theresa Wayman

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

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of…

— Langhorne Slim

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

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

— Laura Benanti

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start…

— Jane Wiedlin

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb…

— Howie Klein

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

— Hank Williams III

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

— Robert Englund

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical…

— Steve Winwood

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the…

— Bjork

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

— Sharon Needles