Punk Quotes - Page 2

• I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Nice, Cutting

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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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• The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

  Trey Parker

  Rocks, Way, Republican

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• Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Records, Embarrassed

  "The Nevermind You've Never Heard" by Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Being Happy, Children, Fun

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• At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

  Lester Bangs

  Dream, Fashion, People

  New Musical Express (December 1977), as quoted in "Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion" by Eric Carr, pitchfork.com. February 10, 2004.

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• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  Adam Oates

  Thinking, Guy, Good Person

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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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• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

  Patrick Stump

  Being Yourself, Rocks, Sound

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2012

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• Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Musical, Style

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• When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day Id be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!

  Ashley Benson

  Girly, Crazy, Rocks

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• Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Lifestyle, I Can

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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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• It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.

  John Roecker

  Hair, People, Bells

  "We Accept You, One of Us?: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974-1985". Book by Mary Montgomery Wolf, 2007.

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• I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Teenager, Hair, Blonde

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• If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.

  Libba Bray

  Moving, Night, Secret

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.245, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

  Mike Shinoda

  Talking, Opposites, Trying

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• He was a boy, she was a girl,
  Can I make it any more obvious?
  He was a punk, she did ballet,
  What more can I say?
  He wanted her, she'd never tell,
  But secretly she wanted him as well.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Boys, Ballet

  "Song: 'Sk8er Boi'". 2007.

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• It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his shirt while he's playing the saxophone. Whoever's not chatting up a Cadet or a girl from Darling House or playing chess with the guys is watching the band. I turn into a groupie.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, House, Guy

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• After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World Wrestling Federation! Crippling Stone Cold Steve Austin, destroying the unstoppable Mankind; putting him out for three months and beating him for the WWF championship. And then, defending it only a week later and dominating...and, oh yeah, taking to school that little punk, your champion, The Rock!

  Triple H

  Running, Wrestling, School

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• I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  Gary Oldman

  Guy, Movement, Brown

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

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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