Quotes About Rebellion

I'm punk, but I love gold.

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

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

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.

The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

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

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

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

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.