Best 143 quotes in «punk quotes» category

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

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.

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.

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

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

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.