Punk Quotes - Page 6

• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Hippie

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

  Justin Sane

  Fighting, Rocks, Racism

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, April 28, 2006.

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• If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

  Joe Casey

  Play, Issues, Toilet Seat

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

  Henry Rollins

  Knows, Asks, Ifs

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• I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

  Kate Nash

  Song, Firsts, Really Cool

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• Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

  Pete Wentz

  Rocks, Punk Rock

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• This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a while for me to figure out how to convey my style. I never wear black very often anymore, all the colors I wear are extremely soft and lovely.

  Ariana Grande

  Hair, Rocks, Color

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• We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

  Dennis Miller

  Laying Down, Bones, Planets

  "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Rocks, Together

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• All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

  Tom DeLonge

  Kids, Thinking, Funny Things

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• Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, People, Vitality

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• Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Attitude, Writing, Expression

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• I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Track, Guy

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• In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out to be so stale, and so boring, and so backward compared to what had come just before. We were too young to have fully experienced the '60s and the fervor of the anti-war movement.

  Jello Biafra

  War, Ideas, Movement

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  Eyvind Kang

  Rap, Gangsta, White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

  Sade Adu

  Fashion, Attitude, Sacrifice

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• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  Justin Sane

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Kids, Men

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

  Billy Bragg

  Zero, Years, Different

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• I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

  Skrillex

  Pyramids, Drug, Mind

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 28, 2012.

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• If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

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• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Al Jourgensen

  Thinking, Rocks, Southern

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• San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

  Jim Goad

  Country, Rocks, Cities

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• I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

  Tony Palermo

  Crazy, Band, Hairstyles

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• The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

  Dannii Minogue

  Funny, Doors, Arrogant

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