Punk Quotes - Page 11

• San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

  Jim Goad

  Country, Rocks, Cities

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• Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

  John Lydon

  Silly, Leather Jackets, Competition

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• We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

  Dennis Miller

  Laying Down, Bones, Planets

  "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a while for me to figure out how to convey my style. I never wear black very often anymore, all the colors I wear are extremely soft and lovely.

  Ariana Grande

  Hair, Rocks, Color

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• I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

  Kate Nash

  Song, Firsts, Really Cool

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• If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

  Joe Casey

  Play, Issues, Toilet Seat

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Hippie

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

  Jello Biafra

  Attitude, Nice, Two

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

  Jello Biafra

  San Francisco, Different, Band

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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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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• My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Eye, Cutting

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

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• I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

  Daughn Gibson

  Kids, Drug, Safe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  Ville Valo

  Song, Night, Achievement

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• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Rocks, People, Done

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• All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

  Lady Gaga

  Morning, Rocks, Wake Up

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• The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

  Dannii Minogue

  Funny, Doors, Arrogant

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• Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

  Jack White

  Cousin, Attitude, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

  Richard Hell

  Character, Kind, Certain

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• What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  People, Important, Chemistry

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• I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Children, Thinking, Mtv

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

  CM Punk

  Crazy, Real, Lying

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Waiting, Exciting

  "Daft Punk Talk 'Random Access Memories,' EDM Scene in GQ" by Emily Zemler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Play, Three

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• It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

  Mike Dirnt

  Rocks, World, Proud

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