Punk Quotes
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood
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When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.
Rick Allen
Def Leppard
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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
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
William Gibson
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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.
Greg Ginn
Black Flag
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Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.
Steve Aoki
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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A real punk is punk on the inside.
Mark Hoppus
Blink-182
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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.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
Bert McCracken
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We just did what we wanted to do. We never thought, 'Well, punk is fashionable, heavy metal is dated - let's be fashionable, let's be a punk band!'
Steve Clark
Def Leppard
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I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.
Debbie Harry
Blondie
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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.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.
Martie Maguire
The Chicks
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All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk.
Tom DeLonge
Blink-182
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag