Quotes About Rebellion

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

The whole 'anniversary of punk' thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, 'I don't want anything to do with this.'

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.

I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing his own thing.

I hated everything but punk for a long time.

Punk was a very liberating force.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I want to do. I don't even know if I could do anything else.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.

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.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

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!