Punk Quotes · Page 8

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

— Jello Biafra

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.

— Gavin McInnes

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

— Charli XCX

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

— Toyah Willcox

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

— Frankie Cosmos

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

— Avril Lavigne

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

— Edwyn Collins

CM Punk was a great wrestler, and he has so many fans and made a lot of people happy with what he…

— Sage Northcutt

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

I think I would destroy CM Punk if I'm being honest. I don't know if anyone would disagree with that.

— Logan Paul

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

— Siobhan Fahey

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

— Martin Popoff

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

— Dexter Holland

For all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for 'Radioactive,' I felt like…

— Avi Kaplan

I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like…

— Grimes

I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd…

— Chrissie Hynde

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation…

— Denis Leary

Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up…

— John Lydon

I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I…

— Pat Smear

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n'…

— El-P

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks…

— Lester Bangs

We're getting bombarded by the most polarizing reactions. As much as the punk in me likes it, I'm really surprised by the…

— Alan Sparhawk

You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is…

— Samoa Joe

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of…

— Chuck D

I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't…

— Greg Graffin

I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I…

— Rozz Williams

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school…

— Pete Doherty

If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to…

— Motorhead

My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human…

— Jello Biafra

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

— Chuck Mosley

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard…

— Oscar Isaac

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

— Anna Sui

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

— Dave Grohl

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

— Charlotte Caffey

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

— Tim Heidecker