Punk Quotes - Page 2

• I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Nice, Cutting

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• I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

  Billy Corgan

  Spiritual, Rocks, Want

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

  Trey Parker

  Rocks, Way, Republican

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• Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Records, Embarrassed

  "The Nevermind You've Never Heard" by Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 27, 2011.

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• At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

  Lester Bangs

  Dream, Fashion, People

  New Musical Express (December 1977), as quoted in "Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion" by Eric Carr, pitchfork.com. February 10, 2004.

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• I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Being Happy, Children, Fun

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• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  Adam Oates

  Thinking, Guy, Good Person

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• (Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Glimpse, World

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• When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day Id be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!

  Ashley Benson

  Girly, Crazy, Rocks

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• Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Musical, Style

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• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

  Patrick Stump

  Being Yourself, Rocks, Sound

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2012

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• Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Lifestyle, I Can

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• Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

  Frank Turner

  Mean, Light, Rocks

  Song: Try This at Home, Album: Poetry of the Deed, 2009

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• It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.

  John Roecker

  Hair, People, Bells

  "We Accept You, One of Us?: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974-1985". Book by Mary Montgomery Wolf, 2007.

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• I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

  Greg Graffin

  Healthy, Skepticism, Dose

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• A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Live Concerts, Pits

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Soldier, Sound

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

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• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Mainstream, Radar

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• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, Acting, Want

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• But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Signatures, Different

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  Bono

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

  Jo Brand

  Hair, Bridges, Ends

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• I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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• I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

  James Caan

  Queens, Growing Up, Believe

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• I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Ideas, People

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