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
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even… — Kim Gordon 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 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
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that… — William Forsythe 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
Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit… — Josh Kun Copy Share Image
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
Woody Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "ooh at ooh at ooh… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
We went through rock 'n' roll, which then became just rock, then punk rock, then the worst disease of all - rap… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a… — Moby Copy Share Image
I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing… — Chris Cubas Copy Share Image
I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan.… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records… — Moby Copy Share Image
It's a dying art to play live anymore and just play raw. Who cares if you make a mistake? That's punk rock.… — Sonny Sandoval 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
From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than… — Paul Kaye Copy Share Image
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock… — David Vanian Copy Share Image
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk… — Moby Copy Share Image
This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Is punk rock really music, or is it really just an attitude? I get into that discussion with people all of the… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
