Martie Maguire Quotes
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.
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I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
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From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I know I'm over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as "anarchopunk" that's a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music - which we don't play - and it keeps away another audience that actually might have liked it when they would have come. That's a pity, for both them and us.
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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
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I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.
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It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
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I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.
