Punk Quotes

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

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.

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.

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.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

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

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

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.