Punk Quotes - Page 4

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

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

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

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

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.

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.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

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

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

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