Punk Rock Quotes - Page 7

• Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Rocks, West

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• 1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Punk, Broke

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Sports, Running, School

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• Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

  Mark Hoppus

  School, Kids, Rocks

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

  Saul Williams

  Letting Go, Running, Wall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Acid, Punk

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

  Moby

  Vietnam, Way, Election

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.

  Mark Coleman

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

  Killer Mike

  Mean, Rocks, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

  Anthony Green

  Kids, Rocks, People

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Punk, Wave

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Rocks, Punk, Metals

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• Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

  Jeff Ament

  Writing, School, Rocks

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• I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.

  Ted Nugent

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

  Geoff Rickly

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Long, Good Movie

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

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• It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where an entire culture is doing one thing. It's not like all the kids in England are discovering the Stooges and the Ramones at the same time. All the kids in England are discovering every band that has ever existed. I can't imagine there being one huge cultural moment like there was in the past. Everything ends up being kind of postmodern.

  Memory Tapes

  Kids, Past, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into punk rock was the idea, "You're fine just the way you are." It sounds kind of dorky, but you don't have to make excuses for who you are or what you do. When you find something like punk rock, not only is it okay to feel that way - you should embrace your weirdness. The world is totally messed up, and punk rock was a way to see that and work with it without candy-coating it. It was saying, "Yeah, the world is this way, but you can still do something about it. Take energy from that."

  John Porcellino

  Energy, World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock cliché. Create whatever your compelled to create. People were putting out their own records, and it just seemed natural to put out my own magazine. When I was really young, I started making magazines and little books, just folded-over pieces of typing paper, so when I discovered punk rock, it really blew my mind. I played in bands and stuff, but making my own zines seemed like an inherent part of that scene.

  John Porcellino

  Being Yourself, Book, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

  Rhys Ifans

  Old Friends, Punk, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

  Eef Barzelay

  Girl, Song, Nice

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• Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.

  Douglas Pearce

  Fun, Rocks, Years

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, People, Green

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