Punk Quotes

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.