Quotes About Punk

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.

I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing. The Ramones were doing it. We were doing it. The Buzzcocks, all those bands.

Pennywise are legends and gentlemen and maniacs.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

One of the seminal moments I remember as a young punk is, when Roy Thomas was doing an editorial read-through of a book before it went to press, and being so gob-smacked by it, he just canceled it right there.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.

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.

Black Flag once showed up at Tower Records and totally disrupted Adam Ant during his big in-store appearance… they bombed the place with thousands of flyers saying BLACK FLAG KILLS ANTS ON CONTACT!

the theory that if New York punk was about art, and London punk about politics, L.A. punk was about pop culture, TV, and absurdity.

It went from fuck music to fuck-you music.

The hair compromise he finally agreed to is a white strip on the left side – geriatric punk, he'd whispered to himself – with, recently, the addition of an arresting scarlet patch. The total image is that of an alarmed skunk trapped in the floodlights after an encounter with a ketchup bottle.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.