Punk Quotes - Page 16

• CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

  Dave Grohl

  New York, Rocks, Cities

  "Good Charlotte, Audioslave, Blink-182 weight on CBGB's plight as deadline looms". www.mtv.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

  Nate Ruess

  Play, Band, Bass

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• Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

  Julie Powell

  Running, Art, Hair

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• I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

  Iwan Rheon

  Teenage, Pistols, Angst

  "[TMN Exclusive] Iwan Rheon – Interview". The Music Ninja Interview, www.themusicninja.com. May 28, 2013.

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• C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

  Jeff Hardy

  Thinking, Nerd

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• People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Guitar, People, Forget

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Expression, Reason

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• It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

  Greg Graffin

  Teenager, Discovery, Order

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• I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Listening, Movement

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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Bondage

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• If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

  Ben Harper

  Inspiration, Rocks, Dixieland

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• All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

  Joey Ramone

  Attitude

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• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Aggravation, Political

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• Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

  Clea DuVall

  Teacher, Kids, Kicks

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• Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.

  Greg Graffin

  Rocks, Ethos, People

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• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  Billy Joel

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Junk

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• Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Jail, Giving

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• My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

  Rick James

  Rap, Fiction, Honest

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 13, 2015

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

  Charli XCX

  Tampons, Want, Periods

  "Charli XCX Wants To Sell Tampons As Tour Merch" by Jessie Peterson, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2014.

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• I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

  Norman Reedus

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  "Watching the Walking Dead Finale with Its Manliest Survivor". Interview with John Lopez, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

  Gemma Arterton

  Stars, Growing Up, Writing

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• Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.

  Joe Armstrong

  Able, Concerts, Should

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• Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Clubs, Down And

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

  Ani DiFranco

  Community, Sound, Littles

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