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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.' — Billy Idol

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

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. — Cat Power

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

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. — Henry Rollins

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it. — Jello Biafra

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

never say amen in church if they're
capping 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

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment. — Kim Gordon

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

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

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

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

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

Storytime is over, Rock. Every time you want to 'bring it,' because it belongs to me, I'm just going to take it!. — CM Punk

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

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar. — Dave Pirner

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

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. — Travis Barker

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 party in a suburban home/
everybody's famous here but nobody's known/ — U2

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

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

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling — Amy Dumas

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

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

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself. — Dexter Holland

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

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. — Joe Strummer

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

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

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

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock. — Yelawolf

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

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

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk — Gary Crowley

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be. — Avril Lavigne

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories. — Mary Harron

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you. — Henry Rollins

Being in love is totally punk rock. — Joey Comeau

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

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

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

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. — Henry Rollins

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

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it. — Halsey

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

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. — Billy Joel

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 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

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

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done. — Kim Gordon

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten. — Kim Gordon

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. — Kim Gordon

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record. — Kurt Cobain

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

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

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's 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

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. — Billy Idol

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

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning. — Lady Gaga

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

I scan the dark room, through the thrashing bodies of disillusioned Parisian youth, getting their anger out with a healthy dose of French punk rock. — Stephanie Perkins

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid. — Aaron Ruell