Quotes About Rebellion

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

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.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued their active role in the punk community. Most of them hung up their leather jacket when they did so.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

I was such a punk.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.