Punk Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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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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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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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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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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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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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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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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Just because someone has green hair doesn't mean they are punk. I have certain attitudes to life and music that don't make me a punk, but in many ways we do have a punk attitude. We set our own rules, so I suppose we are punk in that way.
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I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.
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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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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 was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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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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My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.
