Punk music Quotes

Punk music is rebellious.

— Theophilus London

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

— Matt Besser

I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

— Kate Nash

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

— John Grant

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

— Kate Nash

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

— Avey Tare

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into…

— Daughn Gibson

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through…

— Machine Gun Kelly

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

— Ani DiFranco

When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from…

— Mura Masa

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much…

— Chris McCaughan

Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's…

— Joe Armstrong

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more…

— Jack Antonoff

I love Bach cello suites, I love punk music, I love old blues, negro spiritual quartets, Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love.' There…

— Van Hunt

I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I…

— DJ Premier

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love…

— Chelsea Leyland

Even though I have a huge love for alternative music and punk music, particularly, I have always had the love for pop…

— MO

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone…

— Jello Biafra

I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I…

— Frankie Cosmos

I would sing behind closed doors growing up. Jessica was so good and it made me shy about my own voice. But,…

— Ashlee Simpson

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

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

“What Goodby unveiled at the Crowne Plaza was unlike anything Kalinske and his colleagues had ever seen before. Quick cuts. Crazy zooms.…

— Blake J. Harris

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

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too…

— Ani DiFranco

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high…

— Carrie Brownstein