Punk Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Wave, Exposed

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Individuality, Way, Individualism

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• There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

  John Cusack

  Dark, Rocks, Air

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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• To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

  Joey Ramone

  Who I Am, Individual, Grain

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

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• I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

  Hayley Williams

  Jesus, Gay, Sunday

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• Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

  Kurt Cobain

  Passion, Mean, Rocks

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• It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves

  James Marsters

  Country, Passion, Rocks

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• The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Beautiful, Rocks, Facts

  "Sex Pistols manager dead". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2010.

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• DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'

  Thurston Moore

  America, Rocks, People

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• Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

  Neko Case

  Country, Rocks, Music Is

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• A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

  Travis Barker

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Able, Lifetime

  "‘The Problem With Music’ has been solved by the internet" by, qz.com. April 29, 2014.

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