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Quotes About Passion

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
~ John Grant
I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.
~ Fred Armisen
I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.
~ Matt Besser
My whole life is punk.
~ Tyler Posey
The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.
~ Mark Lanegan
I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.
~ Viv Albertine
Punk inspired me.
~ Viv Albertine
Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.
~ Matt Skiba
The first music I loved on my own was punk.
~ Ezra Furman
I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!
~ Kim Shattuck
I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.
~ Lights
I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.
~ Slowthai
I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.
~ Ezra Furman
Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.
~ Charlotte Caffey
When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.
~ Gina Schock
I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.
~ Van Hunt
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.
~ Pat Smear
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
~ Billy Idol
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
~ Oscar Isaac
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
~ Travis Barker
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
~ James Marsters
I play really bad punk rock guitar.
~ Rhys Ifans
I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.
~ Michelle Visage
We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
~ Ezra Furman