Punk Quotes - Page 7

• If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Jobs, Dark, Needs

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

  Susanna Hoffs

  College, Uc Berkeley, Movement

  "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• Punk can be a mental ghetto.  People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic.  So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.

  Jesse Michaels

  Christian, Stupid, Ghetto

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• The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

  Jonathan Evison

  Lockers, Stuff, Jocks

  "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life’s epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

  Paul Simonon

  Moving, Looks, Want

  "The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian and we were Pollock". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

  Michael Gira

  Art, School, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

  Nigel Cole

  Character, Thinking, America

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• Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

  Jack White

  Cousin, Attitude, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

  Corey Taylor

  Energy, Ears, Influence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Rocks, Glam Rock

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

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• I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Rocks, Careers

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

  Richard Hell

  Character, Kind, Certain

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• What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  People, Important, Chemistry

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• A real punk is punk on the inside.

  Mark Hoppus

  Real, Blink 182

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• Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

  Steve Aoki

  Kids, Saving, Feels

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• All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

  Lady Gaga

  Morning, Rocks, Wake Up

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• Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

  John Lydon

  Silly, Leather Jackets, Competition

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• I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Teenage, Ideas, People

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• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Rocks, People, Done

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• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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