Punk Rock Quotes

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Kurt Cobain Nirvana
- Understand
- Blame
- Grow Up
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green.

Frank Turner
- Waiting
- Lights
- Punk Rock

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

Steve Winwood Blind Faith
Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

Andy Greenwald
- Term
- Punk Rock
- melodic
I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Bradford Cox
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.
I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.

Ezra Furman
- Rules
- Kid
- Intellectual
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Kurt Cobain Nirvana
- Want
- Freedom
- Passion