Quotes of: Punk Keyword

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Stanley Crouch

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were pu...

Dean Wareham

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Travis Barker

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

Tim Gane

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Henry Rollins

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Jello Biafra

We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering & the dissatisfactory nature of the material world. The punks see through the lies of society & the oppressive dictates of modern con...

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matte...

Jane Wiedlin

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Trey Parker

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

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Who I Am

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

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

Hayley Williams

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Dexter Holland

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

Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

Hayley Williams

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Mike Watt

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Nick Lowe

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Henry Rollins

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

Joe Strummer