Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I got really sick of playing just, like, 'Bop-bop-bop-bada-bop-bop-bada-rapa-pah.' Just playing that 190-beats-per-minute punk-rock songs, I didn't feel it anymore. And I… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure… — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends.… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock,… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“Marriage felt like a fading American institution, as relevant to me as the Elks Club. Plus, I considered myself punk rock, and… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process.” — Dominic Owen Mallary Copy Share Image
Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“One of the best things I ever did was make my motto “I just wanna see what I can get away with.”… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock.… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I… — Moby Copy Share Image
We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
![“[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.” quote by John C. Reilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e7/john-c-reilly-3317_appeals_country-music-is-the-final-destination-f_1724134.jpg)
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