Punk Rock Quotes
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The alt-right 2016 is like punk rock 1977: it's daring, new, socially unacceptable, inevitable, and scaring the crap out of everyone.
— Michael Stutz
What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?
— Brian Joyce
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
— Henry Rollins
never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you. — Exene Cervenka
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
— Fred Tomaselli
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.
— Patrick Stump
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Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
— Andy Greenwald
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
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
— Stanley Crouch
I play really bad punk rock guitar.
— Rhys Ifans
I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
— Penelope Spheeris
Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.
— Cheryl Strayed
Dakota started laughing. You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?
— Sara Humphreys
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
— Rob Sheffield
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
— Caitlin Moran
And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.
— Mickey Leigh
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,
— Pete Wentz
The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
— Geoff Rickly
Art is sacred.Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic. — Kurt Cobain
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
— Mike Watt
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
— Dee Dee Ramone
Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.
— John Dyer Baizley
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
— Kreayshawn
I do what I want. I'm punk rock.
— Michael Clifford
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
— Joe Strummer
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
— Imelda May
You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss.
— Jenny Offill
The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."
— Michael Stipe
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
— Al Jourgensen
Kid, you'll be fine.
— Neil Hilborn
Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.
— Brian Joyce
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.
— Mike Dirnt
Society gets by from the help of its citizens.
— Brian Joyce
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
— Billy Corgan
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
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
Being in love is totally punk rock.
— Joey Comeau
The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.
— Jennifer Harrison
In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.
— Brian Joyce
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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 popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
— Malcolm McLaren
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
— Mark Hoppus
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
— Henry Rollins
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
— Yann Martel
(Like a lot of middle-class kids, I needed my punk rock and rebellion underwritten by my parents.)
— Carrie Brownstein
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
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
— Craig Ferguson
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
— Kim Gordon
This is a night of your life. Live it accordingly.
— Charles Romalotti
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."
— Michael Stipe
Punk rock is just another word for freedom.
— Patti Smith
When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.
— Angelina Jolie
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
— Vivienne Westwood
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
— Madonna Ciccone
Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.
— David First
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
— Lance Loud
