Punk Quotes

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.