Punk Rock Quotes

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

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.

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.

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

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

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

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

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.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

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

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

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

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

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you.

We are the anarchists your parents warned you about.

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.