Punk Quotes - Page 26

• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Sex, Son

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• I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Names, Purple, Hairstyles

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• I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

  William Gibson

  Buried, Projectile, Decades

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.22, Penguin

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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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• Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE.

  CM Punk

  Thinking, Wwe, Honor

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

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• I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

  Mike Watt

  Thinking, Rocks, Talent

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• If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

  Assata Shakur

  Dumb, World, Blind

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.222, Zed Books

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• Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

  John Lydon

  Want, Circus, Messages

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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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• 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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• 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 enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.

  Hayley Williams

  Attitude, Rocks, Carbon

  "Paramore: 'We're not just teenybopper superstars'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then I realized that "punk" and "serious" aren't really two words you can put in the same sentence - at least, in my opinion.

  Mister Lies

  Silly, Athlete, School

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.

  G.W. Sok

  Waiting, Anarchy

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• From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I know I'm over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as "anarchopunk" that's a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music - which we don't play - and it keeps away another audience that actually might have liked it when they would have come. That's a pity, for both them and us.

  G.W. Sok

  Real, Drunk, Anarchy

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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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• There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Magazines, Baltimore

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.

  Moby

  Mind, Want, Vegan

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Teenager, Rap, Cutting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

  Gary Jarman

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

  Grant Hart

  Hippie, Ridiculous

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

  David Bowie

  Real, World, Scene

  Source: theemptypage.wordpress.com

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• I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

  John K. Samson

  Play, Kind

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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