Punk Quotes
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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.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
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
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I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.
Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains -
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 -
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.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
Angelina Jolie -
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 -
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
Billy Joel
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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.
Vivienne Westwood -
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 -
In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
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 -
A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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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.
Marco Adam and the Ants -
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.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag -
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.
Maxim The Prodigy -
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 -
We use to catch hell in clubs from people who were into punk. They wanted us to be just like them, but we wanted to rock.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the west and Europe. Sometimes South America. Sometimes Asia. But rarely Africa. The Ex, famously, is one of the few rock acts to travel and perform in Africa which, may be home to more musicians than just about anywhere else in the world.
G.W. Sok
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood -
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.
Anthony Green Circa Survive -
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
Greg Ginn Black Flag -
But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
Sara Paretsky