Punk Quotes - Page 19

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Safety Pins, Mohawks

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• Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Anything And Everything, Questioning

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Scary, Political

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  Yann Tiersen

  Band, Way, Classical Music

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• 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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• We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.

  Chuck Comeau

  Together, Band, Records

  "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.

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• The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Beach, Lying, Gay

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

  Moby

  Rocks, Band, Classical Music

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.

  Chris McCaughan

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

  John Rzeznik

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• Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Rocks, Misunderstood

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• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Years, Clothes

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Rocks, Program

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.

  Ted Nugent

  Obama Supporters, America, Criminals

  "Ted Nugent Interview: Our First American Rock and Roll President?". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

  Tiesto

  Sound Quality, Doe, Lucky

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• Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

  Dexter Holland

  Mean, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

  Reggie Watts

  Rocks, Groups, Band

  "SXSW 2012: Reggie Watts Explains His Unique Comedy Style". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. March 15, 2012.

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• The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.

  Timothy Leary

  Stars, Pride, Personality

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.41, Ronin Publishing

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.

  John Waters

  Fun, Real, Hippie

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

  John C. Reilly

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.

  Bert McCracken

  Emo, Thinking, People

  "Rising star reserves right to mingle on kids' level - Bert McCracken appears with the Used at X-Fest". Interview with David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, August 6, 2004.

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• What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

  Bon Scott

  Beer, Band, Hey

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

  Iggy Pop

  Fashion, Rocks, Style

  "When you hear what Iggy Pop told CBC in 1977, it's no wonder he's still rocking today" by Leah Collins, www.cbc.ca. March 11, 2016.

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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