Quotes About Attitude

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

I love '90s grunge and punk.

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.

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.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

My whole life is punk.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.

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.

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

I've been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music but the attitude.

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

Especially being a punk and all that, I love my look and I don't care if someone doesn't like it.

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

I play really bad punk rock guitar.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

Is punk rock really music, or is it really just an attitude? I get into that discussion with people all of the time. I personally consider be-bop jazz to be punk rock. And prog rock would definitely fall in that category too.