Kind Quote by John K. Samson Download Open image “I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.” — John K. Samson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kind Music Play Punk
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school. — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument. — James Paxton Copy Share Image
I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands. — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just… — Chris McCaughan 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 where the… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree. — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I think of Gord Downie voice as Whitman-esque. He has a poetic voice that contains multitudes, both the suppleness of the instrument of his… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish. — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
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