Punk Quotes
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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A real punk is punk on the inside.
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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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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 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'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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Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.
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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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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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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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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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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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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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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.
