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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. -- Jello Biafra
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. -- Kurt Cobain
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. -- Jello Biafra
A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy! -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. -- Iggy Pop
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk. -- CM Punk
Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart. -- John Rzeznik
C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd -- Jeff Hardy
Punk rock is just another word for freedom. -- Patti Smith
Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool. -- David Pajo
Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology. -- Thomas Bangalter
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief. -- Jo Brand
These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did. -- Stephanie McMahon
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it. -- Jello Biafra
Punk is like not about the style, its about the music! -- Avril Lavigne
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming. -- Patrick Stump
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. -- David Byrne
Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin. -- Wade Barrett
Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming. -- Patrick Stump
If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me. -- J-Ro
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. -- Steve Winwood
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977. -- Pete Townshend
(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world. -- Lester Bangs
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. -- Kurt Cobain
Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! -- Michelle Shocked
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself. -- Dexter Holland
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. -- Billy Idol
Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument. -- James Paxton
Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it. -- Julie Burchill
My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. -- Rick James
Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind. -- Mike Watt
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. -- John Lydon
When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient. -- Pedro Winter
Art is sacred.Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic. -- Kurt Cobain
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. -- Tre Cool
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it. -- Danger Mouse
Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything. -- Pedro Winter
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. -- Laurent Brancowitz
Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. -- Al Jourgensen
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want! -- John Lydon
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience. -- Mike Oldfield
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? -- Henry Rollins
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. -- Brian Johnson
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat. -- Steve Winwood
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth' -- Joe Strummer
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. -- John Lydon
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money. -- Billy Idol
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.' -- Billy Idol
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom. -- Patti Smith
Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories. -- Mary Harron
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. -- Justin Sane
Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. -- William Gibson
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training. -- Kim Gordon
Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture. -- Geoff Rickly
Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain. -- Rick James
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. -- Jack White
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion. -- Kurt Cobain
There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing. -- Greg Ginn
And it's a... it's a term 'Punk Rock' that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion , style , elitism, satanism , and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. -- Iggy Pop
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity. --
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. -- John Dyer Baizley
I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing. -- Tiesto
When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time. -- Ashton Kutcher
I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music. -- Jeffrey Thomas
Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on. -- John Hurt
Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall. -- Saul Williams
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. -- Avril Lavigne
Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square. -- Justin Sane
Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s. -- Pedro Winter
[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities. -- John le Carre
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things. -- Pedro Winter
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. -- Dexter Holland
Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers. -- Jim Ross
I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way. -- Steve Diggle
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Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. -- Greg Ginn
Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about. -- David Byrne
Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place. -- Greil Marcus
Punk's really cool because it's very inclusive of all types, which I like. And I would submit that even though people talk about punk as being thuggish, I think it can be more creative than other types of music. -- Milo Aukerman
Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. -- Iggy Pop
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit. -- William Forsythe
The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot? -- Katherine Losse
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it -- Thurston Moore
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke. -- Avicii
After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push. -- Ashton Kutcher
Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that. -- Piper Perabo
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it. -- Neil Gaiman
I did enjoy the broadcasting work of King, Punk and Josh Mathews last Monday on Raw. Josh is a hard working young man who does his homework and he did well with his opportunity to sit at the grown up table on Raw. -- Jim Ross
I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too. -- Corin Tucker
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. -- Megan Fox
My name's Punk. CM Punk. -- CM Punk
It's a good time to be CM Punk right now. -- CM Punk
This isn't CM Punk talking to Triple H, this is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque -- CM Punk
In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak! -- CM Punk
I'm not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don't look like CM Punk when I'm not in my gear. -- CM Punk
Work It Harder Make It BetterDo It Faster, Makes Us strongerMore Than Ever Hour AfterOur Work Is Never Over-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk -- Daft Punk
Anybody wants to call me the Triple H of Ring of Honor, I think that's hilarious. I would prefer to call Triple H the CM Punk of the WWE -- CM Punk
I'm jumping in right now. And I'm going to say that everybody I know has a 'day I met CM Punk story' and they're all 100% fabrication. It's all bullshit. Thank you. -- CM Punk
I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are. -- CM Punk
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate. -- Siobhan Fahey
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican. -- Trey Parker
I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then. -- Adam Oates
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record. -- Kurt Cobain
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.' -- Michael Stipe
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. -- Moby
At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides. -- Lester Bangs
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God. -- Billy Corgan
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? -- Clint Eastwood

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