One thing that really attracted me to punk was the DIY aspect. And the fact that, since I was a nerd, I… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands,… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So… — Billie Joe Armstrong 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
“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
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
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
What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that,… — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making… — Hunx Copy Share Image
When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock… — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took… — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it… — Moby Copy Share Image
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's.… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know.… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock.… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie -… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
