Kathleen Hanna Quotes About Punk

Quotes about: Punk

• Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Challenges, Rotten

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

• Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Challenges, World

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

• There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Scary, Political

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

• I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fashion, Real, Men

• I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Ideas, Singing, Clubs

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

• In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Punk, Scene

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

• My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Creating, People

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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