Punk Quotes - Page 4

• I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Spokes, Hated

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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• I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

  James Caan

  Queens, Growing Up, Believe

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• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, Acting, Want

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• I think after Iceland's independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I'm second generation. My parents were born in 1945-46. Our movement at the punk times was like, we can sing in Icelandic, we are strong.

  Bjork

  Strong, Thinking, Parent

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• A few years back, when my style was "punk grandma", I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more "1980s substitute teacher gone wild."

  Beth Ditto

  Teacher, Grandma, Years

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.

  David Grubbs

  Thinking, People, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  Beth Ditto

  Artist, Oregon, Perfect

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

  Beth Ditto

  Play, Knowing, Listening

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• I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.

  David Bowie

  Strong, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

  Gruff Rhys

  Listening, Language, Phobia

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  Bono

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

  Bjork

  Apples, Done, Made

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• It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

  Bjork

  Hippie, Hands, Upper Hand

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Soldier, Sound

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

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Sports, Running, School

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• A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Live Concerts, Pits

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• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Football, Rocks, Oakland

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• For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, People, Green

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• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Mainstream, Radar

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• 1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Broke, Significant

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• One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me that somebody crowd surfed during the gig. And this friend of mine was an old punk rock guy - he was totally humiliated by it. But some of Bob's people were there and they said, "Oh, Bob will be so excited! This is the kind of energy we want at his shows." That's where the old school was at.

  Ian MacKaye

  School, People, Guy

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• But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Signatures, Different

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• You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with the issues surrounding punk shows at the time. Back then, people thought you had to be a skinhead and beat the crap out of everybody when you went to a punk show. Come the early 90s, when you had this so-called grunge stuff and when videos became so dominant, you had this totally huge shift in the culture of shows.

  Ian MacKaye

  Real, People, Culture

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• The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

  Jello Biafra

  Labels, Band, Lasts

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Ethics

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