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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
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
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. -- Vivienne Westwood
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. -- Kurt Cobain
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. -- Billy Idol
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
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
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
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 enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. -- Hayley Williams
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
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
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. -- John Cusack
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock. -- Neko Case
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. -- Travis Barker
Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you. -- Henry Rollins
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful. -- Malcolm Mclaren
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. -- Kim Gordon
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
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
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
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. -- Barack Obama
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
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves -- James Marsters
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
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!' -- Thurston Moore
I love punk rock, but I also love metal. -- Penelope Spheeris
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. -- Henry Rollins
Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. -- Henry Rollins
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself. -- Dexter Holland
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. -- Rob Sheffield
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- Yelawolf
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. -- Dave Grohl
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol. -- Dee Dee Ramone
The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another band in what was called the New York scene. -- Todd Rundgren
I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock. -- Buzz Osborne
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
There are always young bands playing in their garages. 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. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk. -- Greg Graffin
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. -- Moby
Being in love is totally punk rock. -- Joey Comeau
Skating is what got me into punk rock. -- Matt Skiba
Punk rock is just another word for freedom. -- Patti Smith
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. -- Stanley Crouch
I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling -- Amy Dumas
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it. -- Jello Biafra
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. -- Joe Strummer
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. -- Steve Winwood
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. -- Jello Biafra
Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk -- Gary Crowley
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
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. -- Craig Ferguson
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock. -- Andy Greenwald
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. -- Billy Joel
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical. -- Nick Lowe
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will, -- Pete Wentz
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment. -- Madonna Ciccone
Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place. -- David First
Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base. -- Chuck Klosterman
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens." -- Michael Stipe
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. -- Arto Lindsay
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing. -- Mike Watt
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now. -- Mike Dirnt
The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice." -- Michael Stipe
All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning. -- Lady Gaga
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. -- Tre Cool
Art is sacred.Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic. -- Kurt Cobain
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. -- Mark Hoppus
When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids. -- Angelina Jolie
I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music. -- Travis Barker
I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums! -- Jello Biafra
The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way. -- Killer Mike
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
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. -- Yann Martel
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth. -- Billy Corgan
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican. -- Trey Parker
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green -- Frank Turner
The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic. -- Geoff Rickly
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
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
San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country. -- Jim Goad
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time. -- Lance Loud
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. -- Fred Tomaselli
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
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
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. -- Cat Power
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. -- Oscar Isaac
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17. -- Kreayshawn
To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal. -- Matthew Lillard
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
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk. -- Patrick Stump
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
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
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
You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness. -- Colin Meloy
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. -- Ben Harper
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
There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song. -- Todd Phillips
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 loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds! -- Caitlin Moran
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 need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that. -- Bradford Cox
If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid. -- Aaron Ruell
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. -- Arto Lindsay
There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder. -- Marc Webb
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
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. -- Frank Iero
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. --
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything. -- Wayne Coyne
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming. -- Brian Dietzen
I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it. -- Michael Franti
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. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
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
A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music. -- Cassie Steele

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