Punk Quotes - Page 8

• I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

  Brian Dietzen

  School, College, Rocks

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• In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Black, Stuff

  Interview with Anthony Kiedis, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.

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• [Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

  Michael Stipe

  Horse, New York, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Youtube, Posts, Gaming

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

  Jenny Eclair

  Actresses, Convincing

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• I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

  CM Punk

  Crazy, Real, Lying

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Fashion, Creativity, Rocks

  "Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. July 7, 2008.

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• I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".

  Ezra Furman

  Summer, Song, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

  Ted Nugent

  Suicidal, Fighting, America

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fashion, Real, Men

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• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• I'm not allowed to wear my street clothes on TV because Vince McMahon says I don't look like CM Punk when I'm not in my gear.

  CM Punk

  Clothes, Cm Punk, Looks

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

  Adam Ant

  Christian, Punk Rock, Rockers

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• I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Differences, Talking

  Interview with Rick Moody, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying the spirit of a real punk. I say real, because today's idea of 'punk as fashion accessory' doesn't even register with him, it's more about the way he engages with the world.

  Travis Mathews

  Fashion, Real, Moving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Waiting, Exciting

  "Daft Punk Talk 'Random Access Memories,' EDM Scene in GQ" by Emily Zemler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Play, Three

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• It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

  Mike Dirnt

  Rocks, World, Proud

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• My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Eye, Cutting

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

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• Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

  Richard Engel

  Careers, Cameras, Rebel

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• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  Billy Idol

  Hair, Rocks, Play

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

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• I did enjoy the broadcasting work of King, Punk and Josh Mathews last Monday on Raw. Josh is a hard working young man who does his homework and he did well with his opportunity to sit at the grown up table on Raw.

  Jim Ross

  Monday, Kings, Hard Work

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• Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

  Wade Barrett

  Wwe, Skins, Waste

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