Punk Rock Quotes - Page 8

• I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

  Moby

  Dark, Animal, Rights

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• After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

  Craig Ferguson

  Rocks, Facts, Punk

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Ethics

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• The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Eight, Rocks

  "'CBGB' was never on Alan Rickman's 'Agenda' - now he's the boss"by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2013.

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• 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

  Rap, Tired, Rocks

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• One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me that somebody crowd surfed during the gig. And this friend of mine was an old punk rock guy - he was totally humiliated by it. But some of Bob's people were there and they said, "Oh, Bob will be so excited! This is the kind of energy we want at his shows." That's where the old school was at.

  Ian MacKaye

  School, People, Guy

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• When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

  Tony Palermo

  Rocks, Needs, Roaches

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• There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

  Ad-Rock

  Rap, Community, Feelings

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• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  Tad Kubler

  Growing Up, Kissing, Listening

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• In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.

  Laura Owens

  School, Math, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Country, Rocks, Cities

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• The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

  Ketch Secor

  Teenager, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

  Doug Martsch

  Growing Up, Powerful, Rocks

  "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.

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• It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock.

  Cristian Machado

  Sex, Rocks, Trying

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  Patrick Stump

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• 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

  Rocks, Different, Band

  "Degrassi's Cassie Steele Interview". Kidzworld Interview, www.kidzworld.com. May 17, 2004.

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• I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans.

  Cristian Machado

  Cheating, Song, Rocks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Rocks, Southern

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• Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Punk

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• Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

  Ryan Adams

  Country, Real, Rocks

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• 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

  Mean, Light, Rocks

  Song: Try This at Home, Album: Poetry of the Deed, 2009

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• This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a while for me to figure out how to convey my style. I never wear black very often anymore, all the colors I wear are extremely soft and lovely.

  Ariana Grande

  Hair, Rocks, Color

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• It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

  Mike Dirnt

  Rocks, World, Proud

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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