Punk Quotes · Page 10

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

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

— Josh Freese

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

— Moby

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

— Fred Armisen

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

— Trevor Dunn

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S.…

— Diplo

I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got…

— Iwan Rheon

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that…

— Matt Skiba

“They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're…

— Bucky Sinister

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world,…

— Frank Ocean

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying…

— Patti Smith

“I particularly dug the subgenre of horror punk, which was basically just punk bands dressing up like zombies or ghosts and pouring…

— Hannah Wilde

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality…

— Dennis Miller

“I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation…

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Ryan Adams

“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots…

— Ransom Riggs

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming…

— Steve Winwood

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

“Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you…

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

— Princess Nokia

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

— Jello Biafra

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

— Martin Popoff

We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.

— Calum Hood

Guys are going to talk. We're going to respond... they aren't going to punk us. Not me. They're not going to punk…

— Tristan Thompson

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

— Danger Mouse

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

— Kenny Beats

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

— Frank Turner

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

— Hayley Williams

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

— Sharon Needles

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

— Julien Baker

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

— Billy Idol

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the…

— Bjork

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

— Robert Englund