Punk Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Listening, Levels

  "'Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk': Chris Cornell On Embracing Space". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2015.

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• I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin.

  Katie McGrath

  Real, Dark, Cutting

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• We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Firsts

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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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• The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Rocks, Play, Band

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

  Pete Townshend

  Rocks, Tsunami, Threatened

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• Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

  Elliott Smith

  Depressing, Memories, Sadness

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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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• My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that it changes every single day. So if I'm feeling you know a little more rebellious, one day I may dress a little more punk rock. But most of the time I say, pretty consistently, I'm feminine.

  Crystal Reed

  Rocks, Feelings, Style

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• Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the west and Europe. Sometimes South America. Sometimes Asia. But rarely Africa. The Ex, famously, is one of the few rock acts to travel and perform in Africa which, may be home to more musicians than just about anywhere else in the world.

  G.W. Sok

  Home, People, Musician

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• I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Mother, Children, Creative

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• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  Tad Kubler

  Growing Up, Kissing, Listening

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• In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

  John K. Samson

  Mind, Four, Stills

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

  Alison Mosshart

  Art, Brain, Skateboarding

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

  Colin Meloy

  Ambitious, Kind, Advent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

  Greg Ginn

  Rocks, Swings, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

  Hiroshi Fujiwara

  Fashion, Inspired, Hometown

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Winter

  Generations, Culture, Rebellion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I went to a fancy dress party as a punk. I went through a stage of being a wannabe punk from the '70s. So, my next-door neighbours were like hardcore punks and I went to see The Vibrators and came home with a T-shirt that said "The Vibrators". My mum said: "You're not going out in that!" But I was really into it. I did soon grow out of it. But that's probably the most embarrassing story I have. I really am just quite normal.

  Georgia Groome

  Party, Home, Hardcore

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

  Pedro Winter

  Want Something, Taught, Patient

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

  Travis Barker

  Thinking, Rocks, Together

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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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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• 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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