Best 143 quotes in «punk quotes» category

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness.

He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

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 rock music.

I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

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, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

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 thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

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 thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.