Punk Music Quotes

• 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

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Punk

  "Green Day: Keeping Their Edge". Book by Matt Doeden (p. 23), 2006.

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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

  Pain, Mean, Rocks

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• Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sound, Punk, Lifestyle

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• 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

  Rocks, Play, Style

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• 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

  Attitude, Rocks, Punk

  "Paramore: 'We're not just teenybopper superstars'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• 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

  School, Rocks, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

  James Paxton

  Perfect, Punk, Masters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  San Francisco, Different, Band

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Band, Punk, Heard

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• I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

  Anton Yelchin

  School, Teens, Punk

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Kids, Drug, Safe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

  Kate Nash

  Song, Firsts, Punk

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• I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mean, Connections, Punk

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Community, Sound, Littles

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• 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

  Able, Punk, Concerts

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