Band Quote by John Lydon Download Open image “I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.” — John Lydon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Band Green Punk
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.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache. — Tom Kitt 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
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is more to me than just having been in the Runaways. And even though I'm really, really proud of what the band accomplished,… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
