Punk Quotes

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

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

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

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

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

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

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.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

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

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.