Punk Quotes - Page 5

• When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Together, Rebel, Looks

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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 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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• It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Rip, Safety Pins

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• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  Yelawolf

  Rocks, Atlanta, Mafia

  Interview with Anthony Centeno, www.vibe.com. July 29, 2013.

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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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• There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

  Ad-Rock

  Rap, Community, Feelings

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• The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

  Greg Graffin

  Running, Dedication, Challenges

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Sports, Running, School

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• Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

  Avril Lavigne

  Style

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• I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

  Avril Lavigne

  Hate, Media, People

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• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Country, School, Rocks

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with the issues surrounding punk shows at the time. Back then, people thought you had to be a skinhead and beat the crap out of everybody when you went to a punk show. Come the early 90s, when you had this so-called grunge stuff and when videos became so dominant, you had this totally huge shift in the culture of shows.

  Ian MacKaye

  Real, People, Culture

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• I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Rocks

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• And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Thinking, Rocks

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
  Punk, don't flatter me.

  J-Ro

  Rap, Hip Hop, Flattery

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• I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

  Craig Ferguson

  Birthday, Thinking, Rocks

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• Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

  Elliott Smith

  Depressing, Memories, Sadness

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• He doesn’t pretend,” the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. “Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?” “Yes,” Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. “Me too,” he said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Boys, Curls

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• Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian) Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha) Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Easter, Tails

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• After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

  Craig Ferguson

  Rocks, Facts, Found

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• You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or was this nothing more than a fraternity prank? Please tell me that you didn’t just ruin my integrity to get some kind of drinking points. This is something I’ve been working for since before you were born. How dare you make a mockery of me. I hope to God that one day someone degrades you like this so that you’ll know, just once in your spoiled pompous life, what humiliation feels like! (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Integrity, Drinking, Games

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.482, Macmillan

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• I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kings, Powerful, Grandma

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Apr 23, 2015

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• And you plan to do this alone? You think a lot of yourself, don’t you animal? (Stone) Oh, punk, please. Believe me, when dealing with wusses like you who have to gang up on a kid to feel powerful, I don’t need any help. (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Believe, Kids

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Being in love is totally punk rock.

  Joey Comeau

  Being In Love, Love Is, Rocks

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