Punk Quotes
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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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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.
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I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.
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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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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've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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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 used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.
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A lot of people in the U.S. used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.
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Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
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I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
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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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Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
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When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
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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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Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
