I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and… — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was… — Steve Diggle Copy Share Image
It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I love The Miz! I absolutely love him. He's so snarky and that's who I want to be. I want to have… — Rhea Ripley Copy Share Image
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace… — Jenn Shelton Copy Share Image
I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
Guetta, in general, what he did for the entire industry, same as Tiesto, same as Daft Punk, they paved the way for… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was,… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I am not doctor who and I can't turn back time. I once said the audience was all punks and little girls,… — Marco Pirroni Copy Share Image
Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when people stop making records with the four-tracks and go into the studio, they lose the edge and the craziness and… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when… — Tony James Copy Share Image
When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna doÂ… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Hit the Dead for they won't listen, Hit the Dead for they don't know, Hit the Dead they're all imprisoned, Hit the… — Peter L Masters Copy Share Image
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our… — Bono Copy Share Image
All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids… — Mike D Copy Share Image
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