Punk Quotes - Page 25

• I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

  Travis Barker

  Littles, Poppies, Straight Edge

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• I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Band, Heard, Wanted

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• Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

  Tre Cool

  Art, Rocks, Form

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• I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Rocks, Firsts

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• Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

  Stanley Crouch

  Music, Rap, Rocks

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• To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

  Brian Setzer

  Player, Feelings, Energy

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• When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

  Gary Crowley

  Rocks, Simplicity, Basics

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• I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope.

  Jenn Shelton

  Running, World, Ass

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• Skating is what got me into punk rock.

  Matt Skiba

  Rocks, Skating, Punk Rock

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

  David First

  Rocks, Different, Noise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.

  David First

  Hippie, Thinking, Two

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Pits, Remember, Goddess

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

  Tom DeLonge

  Art, Kids, Expression

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• Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Punk Rock

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• I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

  Ezra Furman

  Kids, Trying, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

  Joe Trohman

  People, Would Be, Stuff

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• I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

  Avey Tare

  Thinking, People, Music Is

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• There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

  Greg Ginn

  Book, Havens

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

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• Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Pals, Ifs

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• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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• I think we're at the end of all the revivals. People would forget about punk for a while, and then a magazine would do a special issue on the 10th anniversary of punk, for example, and bring it back. But now you can find collectors or friends with the same interest through the Internet at any time, so nothing is ever really gone. Everything is always there.

  Hiroshi Fujiwara

  Thinking, People, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

  Rhys Ifans

  Old Friends, Punk Rock, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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