Punk Quotes - Page 27

• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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• Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Wave, Exposed

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

  Yann Tiersen

  Play, Skills, Sound

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• I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

  Billy Bragg

  Political, Band, Records

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• I lot of people remember when that kid spray-painted my brand new Porsche for Punk'd. That was pretty funny. He got me pretty good. Of course, most people don't know I eventually got him back with my own show. I call it a show, really it's just an hour-long video shot in my bedroom featuring the two of us.

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Two, Long

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• It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.

  Zach Braff

  Depressing, Character, Men

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• Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

  Greg Ginn

  Philosophy, Rocks, Ideas

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• I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Glasses, Cm Punk

  "WWE Raw", August 11, 2008.

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• I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

  Benjamin Booker

  Influence

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• Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'

  Jeff Ament

  School, College, Guitar

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

  Tim Gane

  Band

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• I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

  "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

  Patti Smith

  Running, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.spin.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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• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Running, Sex, Hero

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• Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soccer, Rocks, Fans

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

  Anthony Green

  Kids, Rocks, People

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Rocks, Lovely

  Source: therumpus.net

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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 a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

  Tom Morello

  Hip Hop, Fans, Firsts

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• Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Grunge, Made

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Labels, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

  David Pajo

  Hardcore, Aggressive

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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