Best Punk Qoutes
453 Punk quotes by 291 unique authors
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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can…
— Beth Ditto
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still…
— Beth Ditto
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I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
— Lena Dunham
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I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
— Trevor Dunn
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the…
— Eddie Van Halen
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Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but…
— Mark Hoppus
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I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
— Mark Hoppus
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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.
— Billy Idol
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Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
— Marc Jacobs
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I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
— Etta James
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I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
— Kesha
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After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game.…
— Ashton Kutcher
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When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could…
— Denis Leary
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
— John Lydon
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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
— John Lydon
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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
— Shirley Manson
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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were…
— Shirley Manson
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Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean…
— Moby
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If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind…
— Moby
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As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop…
— Moby
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I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's…
— Moby
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When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a…
— Moby
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And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the…
— Gary Numan
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