Punk Quotes - Page 11

• I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you.

  CM Punk

  Jumping, Wwe, Bullshit

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• I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kings, Powerful, Grandma

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Apr 23, 2015

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• I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
  Punk, don't flatter me.

  J-Ro

  Rap, Hip Hop, Flattery

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

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Action, Moments

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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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• The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

  Ian MacKaye

  Stories, Remember, Scene

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  Iggy Pop

  Sex, People, Trying

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

  Colin Meloy

  Rocks, Stuff, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

  Anton Yelchin

  School, Teens, Middle

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.

  Steve Diggle

  Thinking, People, Phases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

  Steve Diggle

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenage, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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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• Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.

  Greil Marcus

  Running, Listening, Mountain

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• Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Track, Mind

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.

  Legs McNeil

  Real, Stupid, Creativity

  Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain (2006). “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk”, p.334, Grove Press

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• Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

  Julie Burchill

  Years, Two, Good Things

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• If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

  Damon Albarn

  Hippie, Grunge, Ifs

  "Blur's war against grunge: could Brits take on US pop again?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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• We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fighting, Band, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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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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• My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

  Doug Martsch

  Ideas, Rocks, Views

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

  Gylve Nagell

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

  Edwyn Collins

  Sound, Movement, Exciting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

  Mike Watt

  Style, Mind, States

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