I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets. — Avey Tare 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
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can… — Michael Stipe 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
I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my… — Shirley Manson 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 music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to… — Deontay Wilder Copy Share Image
Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk! — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
I'm not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don't look like CM Punk when I'm… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. — Rick James Copy Share Image
Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
Claire - "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" Eve - "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle. — Tony Palermo Copy Share Image
Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any. — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid. — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
