Quotes About Punk

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Martin Gore (musician): To us, the synthesizer was the punk instrument. It was an instant, do-it-yourself tool. Because it was still new, its potential seemed limitless.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Punk hadn't even begun when The Runaways started, at least not in the US. We had our own sound, straight up glam rock.

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.

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

In my high school the Mexican cowboys, the chilangos and rancheros, didn't like the punk rockers.

The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I was not a fan of the Clash or, for that matter, any other punk band that existed.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.