Quotes About Music

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.

A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

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

Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

My whole life is punk.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

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

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don't understand it, but I love metal.

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.

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

Hunx is kind of just, like, a really trashy punk band, honestly.