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Punk Quotes by John Lydon
- Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
- Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
- I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
- Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
- Many of the punk bands are cop-outs and imitators and have made it easy for the likes of Green Peace...Green Day, who I hate. I…
- 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 with themselves. I…
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