Punk Quotes
-
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene 1979. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
-
After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
-
I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.
-
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.
-
I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
-
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
-
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
-
When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
-
Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
-
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place.
