Punk Quotes · Page 18

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

— Anna Sui

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

— Mike Watt

“Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?”

— Gerard Way

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do…

— Sade Adu

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

— Karen Kilgariff

Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially…

— King Krule

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a…

— Travis Barker

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested…

— Charles Hazlewood

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and…

— Viv Albertine

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to…

— Gavin Rossdale

Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,…

— Beth Ditto

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked…

— Rick Rubin

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

“Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal…

— Fernando A. Flores

'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how…

— Ted Naifeh

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,…

— James A. Baldwin

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but…

— Marcus Gray

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is…

— Jean Paul Gaultier

If you look at who emerged on the horizon 12 to 18 months after ECW stopped running shows, I think it's very…

— Paul Heyman

I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort…

— Jello Biafra

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had…

— Cat Power

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

— Imelda May

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla -…

— Vivienne Westwood

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

— Charlotte Caffey

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

— Mike Dirnt

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

— Henry Rollins

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

— Michael Caputo

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

— Mike Watt

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

— Kurt Cobain

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

— Toyah Willcox

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

— Greg Graffin

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me…

— Dorian Yates

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

— Matt Besser

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

— John K. Samson

I like the way punk people perform better than rappers, because rappers suck at performing - no offense.

— Denzel Curry