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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  James Surowiecki

  Rocks, Musical, Punk

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• I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

  Craig Ferguson

  Birthday, Thinking, Rocks

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• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  Justin Sane

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  Jack White

  Growing Up, Hipster, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo. I believe government should always be efficient and accountable. I have lots of gay friends. And yes, I am a Republican.

  Meghan McCain

  Tattoo, Strong, Believe

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• Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

  Greg Ginn

  Philosophy, Rocks, Ideas

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• Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

  Rob Sheffield

  Thank You, Rocks, Three

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• Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

  David First

  Rocks, Different, Noise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

  Justin Sane

  Fighting, Rocks, Racism

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, April 28, 2006.

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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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