Punk Rock Quotes

• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Record
  • England
  • Loving

• 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

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

  

  Andy Greenwald
  • Term
  • Punk Rock
  • melodic

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

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Punk Rock

• 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

• 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.
  • America
  • Rebellion
  • Mainstream

• 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
  • Healthy
  • Punk Rock
  • Sickening

• 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

• I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Guitar
  • Chords
  • Camp

• We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Inspiration
  • Rock N Roll
  • Punk Rock

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