Punk Quotes - Page 16

• It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

  Greg Graffin

  Teenager, Discovery, Order

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• I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Listening, Movement

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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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• Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

  Billy Bragg

  Safety Pins, Pairs, Bondage

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• If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

  Ben Harper

  Inspiration, Rocks, Dixieland

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• My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

  Rick James

  Rap, Fiction, Honest

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 13, 2015

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• What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Racism, Isms, Matter

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• Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Years, Hip Hop, Surfing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fearless, Outsiders, Moved

  "Angelina Jolie Turns 40 - Her 40 Best Quotes" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. June 04, 2015.

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

  Charli XCX

  Tampons, Want, Periods

  "Charli XCX Wants To Sell Tampons As Tour Merch" by Jessie Peterson, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2014.

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• There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Rocks, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.

  Ted Nugent

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Culture, Alternatives

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

  David Denby

  Art

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

  Vera Farmiga

  Queens, Ties, Long

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

  Boy George

  Good Friend, My Best Friend, Wow

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

  Boy George

  Ideas, Like You, Happens

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

  Boy George

  Band, Lemmings, Firsts

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Drawing, Goal

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

  Norman Reedus

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  "Watching the Walking Dead Finale with Its Manliest Survivor". Interview with John Lopez, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Real, Men

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• What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

  Geoff Rickly

  Self, Next, Generations

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Rocks, Punk Rock, Metals

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

  Boy George

  London, Revolutionary, Social

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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