Punk Quotes
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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
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Awwww.... I'm not trying to be punk....I just like it... mohawks are cool...when, when you like first get it done it's a bit of a shock... but other than that...yeah i like it...
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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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 not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.
Alice Bag
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Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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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When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.
Alex Goot
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The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
Steve Albini
Big Black
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I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
Boy George
Culture Club
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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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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We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.
Ezra Furman
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Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.
David Pajo
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.
Stone Gossard
Pearl Jam
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There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
