Punk Rock Quotes - Page 2

• And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

  Iggy Pop

  Fashion, Rocks, Style

  "When you hear what Iggy Pop told CBC in 1977, it's no wonder he's still rocking today" by Leah Collins, www.cbc.ca. March 11, 2016.

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

  Adam Ant

  Christian, Punk, Rockers

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• The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Rocks, Punk

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• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

  Patrick Stump

  Being Yourself, Rocks, Sound

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2012

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• Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Real, Men

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• This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

  Tony Wilson

  Different, Television, Rock Music

  "No strings attached: why the trend for classical 'raves' needs to end" by John Thorp, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2016.

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• Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Records, Punk

  "The Nevermind You've Never Heard" by Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 27, 2011.

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Growing Up, Men, Goal

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• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  Billy Idol

  Hair, Rocks, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

  Stanley Crouch

  Music, Rap, Rocks

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• I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

  Billy Corgan

  Spiritual, Rocks, Want

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

  Moby

  Rocks, People, Band

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• Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soccer, Rocks, Fans

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 22, 2014.

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

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Rocks

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• The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

  Michael Stipe

  Rocks, Voice, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Pete Townshend

  Rocks, Punk, Tsunami

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• [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

  John C. Reilly

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Real, Mean, Rocks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

  John Lydon

  Music, Song, Writing

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Beautiful, Rocks, Facts

  "Sex Pistols manager dead". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2010.

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• I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

  Kurt Cobain

  Growing Up, Kids, Rocks

  "Popular music, gender, and postmodernism" by Neil Nehring, (p. 94), 1997.

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• The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Rocks, Together

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• When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Growing Up, Kids, Rocks

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• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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