Punk Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soccer, Rocks, Fans

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Running, Sex, Hero

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• Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

  Yann Tiersen

  Play, Skills, Sound

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• I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Band, Records

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• I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me pretty good. Of course, most people don't know I eventually got him back with my own show. I call it a show, really it's just an hour-long video shot in my bedroom featuring the two of us.

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Two, Long

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• It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.

  Zach Braff

  Depressing, Character, Men

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• Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

  Greg Ginn

  Philosophy, Rocks, Ideas

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• I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Glasses, Cm Punk

  "WWE Raw", August 11, 2008.

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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• Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

  Nick Rhodes

  Rocks, Glam Rock, Style

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• I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

  Tom Morello

  Hip Hop, Fans, Firsts

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• I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

  Benjamin Booker

  Influence

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• Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'

  Jeff Ament

  School, College, Guitar

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

  Tim Gane

  Band

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• I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

  "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

  Patti Smith

  Running, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.spin.com

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Labels, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

  Pedro Winter

  Kings, People, Saying No

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

  Pedro Winter

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

  David Pajo

  Hardcore, Aggressive

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Grunge, Made

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Rocks, Lovely

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

  Anthony Green

  Kids, Rocks, People

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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