Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life,… — Steve Diggle Copy Share Image
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
My favorite Shrapnel show happened one cold Christmas night when I was 16. It was a midnight show. Now if going to… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people,… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian) Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha) Yeah, and I'm the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around;… — James Paxton Copy Share Image
To me, I think of the '70s as being this glorious decade where I discovered who I was and discovered all these… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
I don't disrespect or takes shots at anyone. I don't want someone going to one of my sons and saying your dad… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
The Pandoras began as a '60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Even though I have a huge love for alternative music and punk music, particularly, I have always had the love for pop… — MO Copy Share Image
I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not… — Lights Copy Share Image
One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty,… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
