Punk Quotes - Page 6

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

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.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

I went to a fancy dress party as a punk. I went through a stage of being a wannabe punk from the '70s. So, my next-door neighbours were like hardcore punks and I went to see The Vibrators and came home with a T-shirt that said "The Vibrators". My mum said: "You're not going out in that!" But I was really into it. I did soon grow out of it. But that's probably the most embarrassing story I have. I really am just quite normal.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

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

To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.

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

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

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