Punk Rock Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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

  Rocks, Atlanta, Mafia

  Interview with Anthony Centeno, www.vibe.com. July 29, 2013.

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• As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

  Moby

  New York, Rocks, Blue

  "Q&A: Moby interview". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2006.

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• I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

  Billy Childish

  Rocks, Blue, Years

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• Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Rocks, Misunderstood

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• 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

  Rocks, Swings, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Rocks, Glam Rock, Style

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• The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

  Arto Lindsay

  Strong, Rocks, People

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• I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

  Gemma Arterton

  Stars, Growing Up, Writing

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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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• Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

  Neko Case

  Country, Rocks, Punk

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• 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

  Country, Passion, Rocks

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• 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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• 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

  Dark, Rocks, Air

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2008.

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• 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

  Passion, Mean, Rocks

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• 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

  America, Rocks, People

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