Punk rock Quotes · Page 4

My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.

— Synyster Gates

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

— Rob Sheffield

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

— Steve Winwood

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

— Amy Dumas

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— CM Punk

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

— Ian MacKaye

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had…

— Chad Gilbert

As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more…

— MO

“The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say ‘George Bush is fucking awesome’ instead of talking about how…

— Trey Parker

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry…

— Dave Grohl

“We both young what made you grow younger." "The music?" He nodded and whispered. "You don't have to go back to being…

— David Agranoff

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We…

— Ryan Ross

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk…

— Colin Meloy

“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

What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock…

— David Vanian

Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you…

— Novala Takemoto

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards…

— Taylor Steele

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys,…

— Andy Biersack

I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like…

— Mark Coleman

One minute I'm the punk rock tattooed guy who had 'Walkin' on the Sun' and all these other songs , and then…

— Steve Harwell

The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk.…

— Michael Ian Black

It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It…

— Jim Jarmusch

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger…

— Nicolas Cage

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

— Michael Stipe

No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.

— KRS-One

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

— Michelle Visage

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

— Jello Biafra

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

— Joe Strummer

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

— Jonathan Evison

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

— Jello Biafra

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.

— Gavin McInnes

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

— Fantastic Negrito

“I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen”

— Nessie Strange

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

— Chuck Berry

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

— George Thorogood