Quotes About Music

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.

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.

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.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

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

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you didn't even know it was jazz.

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

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

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

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

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.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

It's kind of cool being at a poker table with the guys from NOFX, a guy from Bad Religion, a guy from Lagwagon, all these cool punk bands you've always dug.

There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff like that.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.