Punk rock Quotes · Page 5

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

— Norman Reedus

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

— Trey Parker

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

— Michael Stipe

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,

— Pete Wentz

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

— Lady Gaga

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

Me gusta el reggae, me gusta punk rock, pero la cosa que me gusta mas es panochinta.

— Brad Nowell

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy…

— Hayley Williams

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority…

— Greg Graffin

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk…

— Fred Tomaselli

We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our…

— Mike McCready

I always joke that I need to keep the Vandals in my back pocket for punk rock cred while I work with…

— Josh Freese

“Punk rock is very, very much like Catholicism. It gets you when you’re young, you probably hate it at some point, but…

— Frank Turner

I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just…

— Amber Liu

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As…

— Kurt Cobain

When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to…

— Greg Graffin

One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me…

— Ian MacKaye

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

— Henry Rollins

I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic…

— Jim Carroll

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

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like…

— Ryan Adams

When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P.…

— Tony Palermo

Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to…

— Sharon Needles

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

— Mike Dirnt

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

— Kurt Cobain

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

— Killer Mike

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

— John Lydon

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even…

— Kim Gordon

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

— Frank Turner

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's.…

— Penelope Spheeris

“One of the best things I ever did was make my motto “I just wanna see what I can get away with.”…

— Jen Sincero

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting…

— James Murphy

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really…

— Marc Webb

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr