Punk Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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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.
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When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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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.
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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.
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It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
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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.
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I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
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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.
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I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
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There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.
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“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
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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.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
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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.
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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.
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I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.
