Punk Music Quotes: top 66 famous quotes about Punk Music

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I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days. — Brian Joyce

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway? — Brian Joyce

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more. — Brian Joyce

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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. — Kurt Cobain

All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days... — Brenna Ehrlich

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music! — Avril Lavigne

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. — Nick Rhodes

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

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud! — CM Punk

Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge. — Legs McNeil

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. — Kate Nash

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music. — Halsey

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. — Stanley Crouch

Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music. — Joe Armstrong

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! — Michelle Shocked

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. — Will Oldham

Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic. — Kurt Cobain

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music. — Chris McCaughan

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977. — Pete Townshend

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will, — Pete Wentz

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

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences. — Benjamin Booker

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body ... show your personality as much as possible. — Billy Idol

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield

Punk music is rebellious. — Theophilus London

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha

Society gets by from the help of its citizens. — Brian Joyce

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now. — Mike Dirnt

Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits. — Brian Joyce

MTV introduced me to punk music and gay people. — Amy Poehler

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it. — Benjamin Booker

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure. — Brian Joyce

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music. — David Pajo

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school. — Anton Yelchin

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better. — Brian Setzer

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. — Gustav Ejstes

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. — Brian Joyce

Like punk?" She wrinkled her nose. She could stand a few Dead Milkmen songs, but other than that, she hated Park's punk music. "I — Rainbow Rowell

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. — Reggie Watts

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. — Laurent Brancowitz

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. — Thomas Bangalter

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. — Yann Tiersen

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music. — Mike Watt

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free. — Brian Joyce

Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle. — Green Day

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

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available. — Brian Joyce

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind. — Mike Watt

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

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool. — Malcolm McLaren

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock. — Neko Case

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat. — Steve Winwood

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. — Moby

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. — Garth Risk Hallberg

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. — Rick James

Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it's a thought process. — Dominic Owen Mallary

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. — Dave Grohl

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. — Jessica Pare

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action. — Frankie Cosmos

I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn't going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter? — Joe Meno