Quotes of: Punk Keyword

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Dave Pirner

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Donatella Versace

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?

Gerard Way

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

John Lydon

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

Gavin Rossdale

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Jello Biafra

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

Patti Smith

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Siouxsie Sioux

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

Mark Hoppus

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Anna Sui

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

Etta James

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

Gary Oldman

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Joel Madden

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

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

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Laurent Brancowitz

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

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Will Oldham

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

Anthony Kiedis