Punk Quotes - Page 10

• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Ideas, Way

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• I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Rocks

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• I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

  Greg Graffin

  Men, Common, Folks

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Growing Up, People

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• People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

  Gerard Way

  Selfish, Race, People

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• Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Faces, Firsts

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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 was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

  Shirley Manson

  Mother, Dad, Hippie

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• The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock cliché. Create whatever your compelled to create. People were putting out their own records, and it just seemed natural to put out my own magazine. When I was really young, I started making magazines and little books, just folded-over pieces of typing paper, so when I discovered punk rock, it really blew my mind. I played in bands and stuff, but making my own zines seemed like an inherent part of that scene.

  John Porcellino

  Being Yourself, Book, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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• We're getting bombarded by the most polarizing reactions. As much as the punk in me likes it, I'm really surprised by the weird energy that comes at you when people talk to you like that. I mean, I know there are people out there who loathe me and loathe Low, but they stop short of broadcasting it. It's just interesting to see that line getting breached.

  Alan Sparhawk

  Mean, Interesting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.

  Ali Koehler

  Song, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

  Karan Mahajan

  Book, Understanding, Philip

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

  Winona Ryder

  Growing Up, Dad, Rocks

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• Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ethos, Crumbling

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• For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

  Donatella Versace

  Safety Pins, Soul, Rebellion

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

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• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  Eddie Vedder

  Careers, House, Guilt

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• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  James Surowiecki

  Rocks, Musical, Accurate

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• When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

  Anna Sui

  Reactions, Craze, Disco

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Rolling

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• Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

  Rob Sheffield

  Emotional, Guitar, Games

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• Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

  Rob Sheffield

  Thank You, Rocks, Three

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• I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

  Gus Van Sant

  Change, Thinking, Talking

  "Set reports from The Last Samurai! Tom Savini speaks about The Dead! Spider-man 2's Doc Ock! Plus a ton more". Moviehole Interview, movieweb.com. February 08, 2003.

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