Best 143 quotes in «punk quotes» category

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

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

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.

My name's Punk. CM Punk.

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

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

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

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

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

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

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 rock.

To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

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

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

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 find straight pants again.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.