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I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. -- Kate Nash
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. -- Kurt Cobain
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. -- Ani DiFranco
I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music. -- Chris McCaughan
Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music. -- Joe Armstrong
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today. -- Jello Biafra
My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial. -- Ani DiFranco
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock. -- Neko Case
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. -- Stanley Crouch
Punk is like not about the style, its about the music! -- Avril Lavigne
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. -- Steve Winwood
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. -- Kurt Cobain
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! -- Michelle Shocked
My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action. -- Frankie Cosmos
All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. -- Gustav Ejstes
I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences. -- Benjamin Booker
You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music. -- Mike Watt
I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school. -- Anton Yelchin
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better. -- Brian Setzer
Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument. -- James Paxton
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop. -- Tom Morello
My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. -- Rick James
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will, -- Pete Wentz
As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music. -- David Pajo
Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind. -- Mike Watt
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. -- Kesha
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now. -- Mike Dirnt
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. -- Rob Sheffield
I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music. -- Travis Barker
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. -- Dave Grohl
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. -- Moby
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. -- Chuck Berry
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. -- Laurent Brancowitz
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. -- Jello Biafra
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. -- Will Oldham
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
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible. -- Billy Idol
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. -- Thomas Bangalter
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
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free, -- Steve Albini
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. -- Travis Barker
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. -- Reggie Watts
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement. -- Nick Rhodes
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it. -- Benjamin Booker
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it. -- Benjamin Booker
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
I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it. -- Sufjan Stevens
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. -- Jessica Pare
I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. -- Yann Tiersen
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. -- Jessica Pare
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
I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge. -- Daughn Gibson
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

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