Punk Rock Quotes

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  Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rap, Rocks, Punk

  M.E.A.T Magazine, September 1991.

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• 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

  Successful, Rocks, Be Who You Are

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• Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

  Dexter Holland

  Mean, Thinking, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Attitude, Rocks, Essence

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• Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Punk, Dangerous

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• 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

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Pals, Punk

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Punk

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• I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

  Billy Idol

  Attitude, Thinking, Rocks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

  Pete Wentz

  Rocks, Punk

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• I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Rocks, Firsts

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• Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, People, Vitality

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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 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

  Heart, Men, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

  Johnny Ramone

  Friendship, Success, Good Friend

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.156, Abrams

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock shouldn't be quality; it should be f**king mania. It should be gnarled, a glorious lo-fi live sound.

  David Vanian

  Quality, Punk, Producers

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

  Smart, School, Weekend

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• I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

  Hayley Williams

  Jesus, Gay, Sunday

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• (Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Glimpse, World

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• 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

  Rocks, Clubs, Down And

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

  Amanda Palmer

  Punk

  Source: www.wbur.org

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