Punk Quotes - Page 9

• Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

  Julie Burchill

  Years, Two, Good Things

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• If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

  Damon Albarn

  Hippie, Grunge, Ifs

  "Blur's war against grunge: could Brits take on US pop again?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• [Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

  Michael Stipe

  Horse, New York, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

  Michael Stipe

  Rocks, Ethos, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Fashion, Creativity, Rocks

  "Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. July 7, 2008.

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• As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

  Ted Nugent

  Suicidal, Fighting, America

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

  Adam Ant

  Christian, Punk Rock, Rockers

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• I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Differences, Talking

  Interview with Rick Moody, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 14, 2014.

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• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Rocks, People, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Teenage, Ideas, People

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• Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

  Michelle Shocked

  Form, Folks, Folk Music

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• I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

  Jello Biafra

  Tired, Rocks, Skulls

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• When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

  Neil Young

  Hate, People, Thank You God

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• I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Self, Gutters, Littles

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