Punk Quotes · Page 19

I just find social media such a robotic experience, whereas punk was right in your face.

— Toyah Willcox

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

— Killer Mike

“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.”

— William S. Burroughs

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how…

— John Lydon

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

— Simon Cowell

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I…

— Joey Ramone

I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.

— Van Hunt

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

— Mike Watt

Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,…

— Princess Nokia

The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear…

— Lady Gaga

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry…

— Dave Grohl

People find it hard to place me. I'm doing pop, but I'm this weird quirky Dane that used to be in a…

— MO

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk…

— Carrie Brownstein

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with…

— Beth Ditto

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made…

— Grant Hart

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff…

— Ian MacKaye

I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that…

— Rozz Williams

I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk.…

— CM Punk

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have…

— Amy Ray

You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with…

— Ian MacKaye

How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something…

— Parker Posey

[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country…

— John C. Reilly

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left…

— Kathleen Hanna

“My interest in comics was scribbled over with a revived, energized passion for clothes, records, and music. I'd wandered in late to…

— Grant Morrison

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played…

— Thomas Rhett

I embarrass my family, singing all the time. Anything from opera to punk, via a bit of metal and soul. A very…

— Paul Whitehouse

My father wanted the high school diploma on the wall, so I got that and then started hanging out in New York…

— Marky Ramone

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

— Pedro Winter

“In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.”

— Kate Rockland

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a…

— Nick Rhodes

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

— Andy Dunn

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything…

— Vivienne Westwood

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

— Damon Albarn

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it.…

— Paul Rodgers

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

— Andy Greenwald