Punk Quotes - Page 5

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

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

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

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

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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

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

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

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

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

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

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...