Punk Quotes · Page 8

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

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

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

There's one side of me that just wants to get up on stage and be punk and go crazy and stuff like…

— Hunx

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would…

— Phil Elverum

I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would…

— Holly Marie Combs

I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen…

— Jenn Shelton

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to…

— Kathleen Hanna

I went to a music store and I saw this machine called the Roland MC-505. It was just a groovebox - half…

— Peaches

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk…

— Mike Shinoda

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 remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and…

— Princess Nokia

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a…

— Vivienne Westwood

Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me.…

— Tad Kubler

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go…

— Frank Turner

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

— Jello Biafra

Guys are going to talk. We're going to respond... they aren't going to punk us. Not me. They're not going to punk…

— Tristan Thompson

We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.

— Calum Hood

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

— Angelina Jolie

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

— John K. Samson

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

— James Murphy

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

— Rachel Vincent

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

— John Cooper Clarke

“thought I was done with you punk? Not by a long shot. You and me are welded together at the soul.”

— John Hunt

“These punk anarchist peoples de most honest an’ authentic peoples in de whole world!”

— Jonathan Shaw

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

— Eugene Mirman

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

— Boy George

It's like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can't complain like, 'Hey, the punk…

— Dave Portnoy