Punk Quotes

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

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 think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

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.

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

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.