Punk Quotes

• I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Drug

• I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Stuff
  • Stills
  • Outcast

• People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Home
  • Cutting
  • Punk

• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Listening
  • Kissing
  • Classic

• Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Way

• I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Punk
  • Self-centered
  • Diss

• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Political
  • Scary
  • Realizing

• 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.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Reason
  • Ability
  • Expression

• “Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”

  

  Viviane Katrina Louise
  • Time
  • Punk
  • Acceptable

• I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Fearless
  • Moved
  • Outsiders

• Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Style
  • Exciting
  • Atrocious

• Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Music
  • Challenges

• I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Home
  • Matter
  • Ethics

• I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Men
  • Common
  • Similarity

• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Cold
  • Rock And Roll

• I am not doctor who and I can't turn back time. I once said the audience was all punks and little girls, now they are old punks and old little girls. I don't mind the fans being maturer, if there are younger fans that's good too.

  

  Marco Adam and the Ants
  • Mind
  • Girl
  • Audience

• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Music
  • Level
  • Removed

• A real punk is punk on the inside.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Real
  • 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.

  

  Grant Hart Hüsker Dü
  • Culture
  • Look
  • Punk

• When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Together
  • Rebel
  • Urban

• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  

  Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Homeless

• Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Lifestyle

• There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Book
  • Punk
  • Havens

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