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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys,… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One minute I'm the punk rock tattooed guy who had 'Walkin' on the Sun' and all these other songs , and then… — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk… — Thurston Moore 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 grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like… — Ryan Adams 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
When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P.… — Tony Palermo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it… — Moby Copy Share Image
Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings.… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.… — Chuck Klosterman 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
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
I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics… — Ian Astbury 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
Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me.… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to… — Tobi Vail Copy Share Image
My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people… — Doug Martsch Copy Share Image
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
![“Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go…” quote by Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/henry-rollins-170_arena_punk-rock-gave-music-back-to-people-for_1340442.png)
