Top 1200 Punk Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

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

That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

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

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the major labels have talked about for years. I mean, to me, that should be so obvious. For decades, literally, as long as Rock N' Roll has existed, a large swath of major label income came from Rock, and later, Metal bands. So if you essentially stop signing the thing that brought in a significant portion of your income, how are you confused when you don't sell as much? It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I still don't get it.

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

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

When we first started, I didn't know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions... Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

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

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

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

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

We constantly try to change and stay fresh. We've done a lot of different styles of music: R&B, hip-hop, rock, orchestral. So when people hear us doing a rock'n'roll record or a movie like "Dreamgirls," they'll say, "Hey, that doesn't sound like an Underdogs sound."

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I really truly love all styles of music. A lot of people say that, but the first station they turn to when they get in the car is a rock station. I don't always do that. I really enjoy everything. But, of course, I'm a rock shred guitar player first.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

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

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

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

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

To many, Courtney Love smells like rock hype. Reviewers may be excited about her, but the rock audience may be skeptical of the credentials of someone who is more famous for her interviews and her spouse than for her music.

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

The CM Punk is No. 1 in the world, bubba. He work hard. He love the wrestling business.

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.