Punk Quotes · Page 11

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

— Hank Williams III

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical…

— Steve Winwood

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb…

— Howie Klein

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought…

— Shannon Purser

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

— Ice Cube

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

— Fred Armisen

I had always told my people, 'If you set me up to get 'Punk'd,' I ain't never speaking to you again, because…

— Paul Wall

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream.…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue,…

— Leigh Lezark

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

Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it…

— Kate Nash

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my…

— Florence Welch

To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do.…

— G.W. Sok

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys…

— Michael Franti

Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk…

— Torquil Campbell

“Punk has been portrayed as music by and for angry white males, but in its inception, it was a rebellion against all…

— Alice Bag

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

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This…

— Elliott Smith

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,…

— Eddie Van Halen

You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I decide I’ll just have to be myself. I’m sick of pretending anyway – of policing my words and editing my thoughts.…

— Viv Albertine

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

“...raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack...”

— Elizabeth George

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

— Nick Hornby

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about…

— Geoff Rickly

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the…

— Ezra Furman

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

— Anton Yelchin

In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

— CM Punk

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

— Kate Nash

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

— Kim Gordon

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

— Gina Schock

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

— Richard Herring

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

Fuckin punk you aint leader what, nobody followed you your never shit your mother shoulda swollowed you.

— Big L

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

— Machine Gun Kelly

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone