Best 143 quotes in «punk quotes» category

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

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.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

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

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

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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 a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

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

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 love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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

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!

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

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

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

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 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.

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

My name's Punk. CM Punk.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.