Punk Rock Quotes - Page 3

• The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Able, Punk

  "‘The Problem With Music’ has been solved by the internet" by, qz.com. April 29, 2014.

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• Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

  Tre Cool

  Art, Rocks, Punk

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• I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

  Caitlin Moran

  Night, Rocks, Two

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

  Trey Parker

  Rocks, Way, Republican

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• In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Helping Others, Mirrors

  "Q & A: Actor Nicolas Cage Looks Ahead With 'Knowing'". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Football, Rocks, Oakland

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• Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Rocks, Lovely

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Moby

  Rocks, Band, Punk

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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

  Travis Barker

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Thinking, Rocks

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Records, Punk

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• I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.

  Ali Koehler

  Song, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Punk, Mainstream

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• When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day Id be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!

  Ashley Benson

  Girly, Crazy, Rocks

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

  Cat Power

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Nick Lowe

  Rocks, Musical, Punk

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• I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Rocks, Political

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

  Guy Picciotto

  Emo, Hate, Stupid

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• Skating is what got me into punk rock.

  Matt Skiba

  Rocks, Skating, Punk

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Challenges, World

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Scary, Political

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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

  Brandon Thomas

  Rocks, Labels, Band

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