Top 1200 Punk Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.

As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more into alternative music and punk rock.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't the same as English punk. It wasn't a working-class movement that was protesting the conditions under which this class had to work. I don't think American punk ever died.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought black high top Converse.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

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.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like Rock Against Racism and they needed music that reflected that. Something similar was happening in comedy too, with the Comedy Store and the alternative scene that I got involved in.

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

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 in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's flattering.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

I'd say a big transition as a kid was when I started to listen to Good Charlotte. They were like a rap-to-rock/punk group.

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

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.

I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

I was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.