Punk Quotes - Page 14

• Punk's really cool because it's very inclusive of all types, which I like. And I would submit that even though people talk about punk as being thuggish, I think it can be more creative than other types of music.

  Milo Aukerman

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: vandalamagazine.com

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• One thing that really attracted me to punk was the DIY aspect. And the fact that, since I was a nerd, I was like 'you mean nerds can belong to this little society? So all of these things went into my attraction to it.

  Milo Aukerman

  Mean, Nerd, Facts

  Source: vandalamagazine.com

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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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• 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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• People will tell me, "You're such a punk rebel," this or that, but I was not that growing up. I was actually a super-sheltered, conservative girl. Now, there was probably a bit of me that was like, "Why do I have to be like that?"

  Gwen Stefani

  Girl, Growing Up, People

  Source: www.glamour.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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• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  Paul Morley

  Self, People, Desire

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• It's a good time to be CM Punk right now.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Cm Punk, Good Times

  "CM Punk mulls over his future" by Dave Hillhouse, slam.canoe.com. June 6, 2005.

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• When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Growing Up, Kids, Rocks

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• I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

  Billy Childish

  Rocks, Blue, Years

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• I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

  Troy Duffy

  Hate, Thinking, I Hate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Real, Mean, Rocks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, People, World

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  Patrick Stump

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.

  Rozz Williams

  Thinking, People, Age

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• I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.

  Rozz Williams

  Growing Up, Together, Groups

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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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• 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 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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